Rockport-Fulton High School
Rockport-Fulton High School is a public high school in Rockport, Texas, United States, located on the Texas Gulf Coast. It is the only high school in the Rockport-Fulton Independent School District and classified as a 4A school by the UIL. For the 2021-2022 school year, the school was rated as a "B" by the Texas Education Agency. Parts of the school collapsed in August 2017 due to Hurricane Harvey.
Its new gymnasium, built for $1 million donated by Ellen DeGeneres and Lowe's Home Improvement, has a capacity of 1,000 and opened in the fall of September 2019.
Athletics
The Rockport-Fulton Pirates compete in the following sports
Notable alumni
- Dat Nguyen – former NFL player for the Dallas Cowboys
- Daniel Rakowitz (born in 1960) – a 1980 graduate of Rockport-Fulton High School who went on to become nicknamed the "Butcher of Tompkins Square"
- Guy Clark - American country and folk singer, musician, songwriter, recording artist, and performer
- Tammie Brown - drag queen, best known for appearing on the first seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
References
- ^ "Search for Public Schools - ROCKPORT-FULTON H S (480855000222)". National Center for Educational Statistics. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
- ^ "TEA". Texas Education Agency. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
- ^ "HARVEY HITS COASTAL BEND: People reportedly trapped inside collapsed Rockport building". Retrieved 26 August 2017.
- ^ "Rockport-Fulton ISD's new gym funded by Lowe's, Ellen DeGeneres". KIII at KHOU. 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
- ^ "Schools - The Athletics Department .com". www.theathleticsdepartment.com. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
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