Jefferson High School (El Paso, Texas)


Jefferson High School is a public high school located in South-Central El Paso, Texas, United States. It is part of the El Paso Independent School District and it serves mainly the eastern section of South-Central El Paso, generally from the Rio Grande north to Interstate 10 west of Raynolds Street and the railroad tracks running just north of El Paso Drive east of Raynolds, and from Luna and San Marcial Streets east to the Ysleta Independent School District boundary in the vicinity of Ascarate Park.
Jefferson High School is fed mainly by Henderson Middle, into which the elementary schools in its feeder pattern, Clardy, Cooley and Zavala, graduate. A four-by-ten-block area north of Interstate 10 surrounding the historic Concordia Cemetery and bordered by Interstate 10, the Patriot Freeway, Tularosa Avenue, and Estrella Street is also zoned to Jefferson for the high-school grades, to Henderson for the middle-school grades, and to an unknown Elementary school for prekindergarten to fifth grade. The attendance zone north of Tularosa Avenue is zoned to Armendariz Middle and Austin High.

Athletics

In March 2012 Jefferson had its first state and national championships.

Notable alumni