The Alpine Independent School District is a school district based in Alpine , Texas , United States . The district operates one high school, Alpine High School .
4-604: Prior to 1996 Alpine High School served as the high school for students from Terlingua Common School District . Beginning in the 1960s, students were bussed to Alpine, with the bus ride being the longest in the United States. San Vicente Independent School District also sent its high school students to Alpine High. In 1996 Big Bend High School opened and the Terlingua area students no longer came to Alpine High. San Vicente ISD at that time began using Big Bend High. As of
8-632: The 2010-2011 school year, the appraised valuation of property in the district was $ 380,110,000. The maintenance tax rate was $ 0.117 and the bond tax rate was $ 0.009 per $ 100 of appraised valuation. In 2011, the school district was rated " Recognized " by the Texas Education Agency . Thirty-five percent of districts in Texas in 2011 received the same rating. No state accountability ratings will be given to districts in 2012. A school district in Texas can receive one of four possible rankings from
12-570: The Texas Education Agency: Exemplary (the highest possible ranking), Recognized, Academically Acceptable, and Academically Unacceptable (the lowest possible ranking). Historical district TEA accountability ratings: Currently the district serves Alpine. Residents of the Sul Ross State University family housing units, Lobo Village 5 through 7, are zoned to Alpine ISD schools. Prior to 1996 for
16-428: The high school level Alpine ISD served, in addition to Alpine, Lajitas , Panther Junction , and Terlingua . The San Vicente and Terlingua districts include Big Bend National Park . In the 2011-2012 school year the district operated three schools: Alpine High School offers boys' baseball, basketball, football, powerlifting, golf, and wrestling; and girls' basketball, softball, powerlifting, golf, and volleyball. For
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