Lincoln High School (Dallas, Texas)

Infobox_School
name = Lincoln High School
type = Public, Secondary
location = 2826 Hatcher Street Dallas, TX 75215
district = Dallas Independent School District
grades = 9-12
principal = Earl A. Jones [http://www.dallasisd.com Dallas ISD] - [http://www.dallasisd.org/schools/realtor_new.cfm?id_con=235 Lincoln High School] . Retrieved 7 January 2007.]
faculty = 97
students = 1,245 [http://www.tea.state.tx.us/ Texas Education Agency] - [http://askted.tea.state.tx.us/org-bin/school/SCHOOL_RPT?Y::School::Directory School Directory] - type in school number "057905009" and select "view report." Retrieved 7 January 2007.]
colors = Purple and White color box|purple color box|white
mascot = Tigers
motto = Lincoln High School's mission is to create an environment where students (our consumers), are afforded opportunities for academic excellence (our product), in an atmosphere where they are valued, accepted, challenged, motivated, and expected to learn.
free_label = Trustee dist.
free_label2 = Area
free_text = 9, Ron Price [http://www.dallasisd.com Dallas ISD] - [http://www.dallasisd.org/pdf/infosheets/schoolsbytrustee.pdf Schools by Trustee] . (PDF). Retrieved 7 January 2007.]
free_text2 = 2, Shirley Ison-Newsome [http://www.dallasisd.com Dallas ISD] - [http://www.dallasisd.org/pdf/infosheets/schoolsbyarea.pdf Schools by Area] . (PDF). Retrieved 7 January 2007.]
information = [phone] [http://www.dallasisd.com Dallas ISD] - [http://www.dallasisd.org/pdf/infosheets/schooldirectory.pdf School telephone numbers] . (PDF). Retrieved 7 January 2007.]
Fax: [phone] [http://www.dallasisd.com Dallas ISD] - [http://www.dallasisd.org/pdf/infosheets/schoolfax.pdf School fax numbers] . (PDF). Retrieved 7 January 2007.]
website =

Lincoln High School is public secondary school located in south Dallas, Texas (USA). Lincoln High School enrolls students in grades 9-12 and is a part of the Dallas Independent School District.

Lincoln also has a magnet school called the Humanities/Communications Magnet High School, which offers clusters of Radio/Television/Film, Print Journalism and Humanities. The High School's motto is to maintain the mark of excellence. The school has a variety of activities including Academic Decathlon, Debate, U.I.L. One Act Play, The Wall Of Sound Marching Band and sports such as basketball, football etc. The school has won nationals in basketball and dance.

Feeder patterns

As of 2007, Pearl C. Anderson Middle Learning Center feeds into Lincoln. [http://www.dallasisd.org/ Dallas ISD] - [http://www.dallasisd.org/eval/schoolinfo/indexfeeder.htm 2006 School Feeder Patterns] - [http://www.dallasisd.org/eval/schoolinfo/feeder2006/adamson.htm W. H. Adamson High School] . Retrieved 5 April 2007.]

As of 2007, the following elementary schools feed into Lincoln:
* Joseph J. Rhoads Learning Center (PK-5)
* Charles Rice Elementary School (PK-5)
* Ascher Silberstein Elementary School (PK-5)
* H. S. Thompson Learning Center (PK-5) all feed into Anderson and ultimately, Lincoln.

Notable alumni

* Arthello Beck — African-American artist and gallery owner
* Big Tuck — rapper
* Chris Bosh of the Toronto Raptors NBA basketball team [http://www.oakcliff.com/OC_Notables.html Famous (and infamous) People from Oak Cliff] ] — led Lincoln to the number-one rank nationally
* Abner Haynes, American Football League All-Star running back
*John Hopps, Jr. (1954) — physicistNorma Adams Wade. [http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-wade_16met.ART0.North.Edition1.3eca44e.html About Town] (news brief in a column about local African-American news), "The Dallas Morning News", August 16, 2006 ("University professor June Gary Hopps accepted distinguished alumni honors for her late husband, Dr. John Hopps Jr., a graduate of N.W. Harllee Elementary and Lincoln High School in Dallas. Dr. Hopps graduated from Lincoln at age 16 in 1954 and became a top physicist and international federal government appointee in two administrations. Omega Psi Phi fraternity members pledged to donate $25,000 to Morehouse College in Atlanta in memory of Dr. Hopps."]
* Herbie Johnson, one of the first African-American students to graduate from the University of North Texas (then known as North Texas State College) [http://www.unt.edu/northtexan/archives/s04/early.htm Remembering the early days: Pioneers of desegregation recall isolation, prejudice and kindness] , "The North Texan" Online, Summer 2004]
* David "Fathead" Newman — jazz saxophonist

References

External links

* [http://www.dallasisd.org/schools/realtor_new.cfm?id_con=235 Dallas ISD listing for Lincoln High School]
* [http://www.dallasisd.org/eval/profiles/2005_06/english/high/009_LINCOLN.pdf School profile] (PDF)
* [http://www.dallasisd.org/eval/schoolinfo/highzones2007/Lincoln2007.pdf Attendance zone map] (PDF)