Langham Creek High School 17610 FM 529, Houston, TX  77095 (281) 463-5400 (281) 345 - 3509 FAX Principal:  David Hughes School Hours:  7:25 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. School Opened: 1985

last updated: 11/29/2012

Administrative Team

Campus Goals

• Safe and positive learning environment
• Promotion rate in all classes  (90% or better)
• TAKS/EOC performance for all students in all tested areas (90% or better)
• Commended performance on TAKS/EOC in all areas (25% or better)
• Graduation and post-secondary education plans for every student
• 100% of students involved in at least one extracurricular or service activity

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Partnerships with the community are vital in order to strengthen instructional outcomes for all students. We would like you to develop a collaborative relationship with us that will foster long-term student achievement ... one that offers opportunities for all students ... making a difference together.  For more information, please contact Robin Wiese at 281.345.3589.

Demographics

(as indicated in the 2011-12 AEIS Report)

Awards and Accomplishments

• June 8, 2011—Cypress Creek, Cypress Woods, Cy-Fair and Langham Creek high schools ranked among the top 2,000 U.S. high schools in the country, according to the Washington Post and Newsweek’s annual Challenge Index.

The Challenge Index is determined by dividing the number of Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2010 divided by the number of graduating seniors. All of the schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000, meaning they are in the top 6 percent of public schools measured this way.
The Index includes a subsidized lunch percentage that determines the percentage of students receiving federally subsidized meals and an equity and excellence percentage that shows the portion of all graduating seniors that had at least one passing grade in one AP or IB test.
Langham Creek ranked at No. 1,797 with an index of 24.70, while receiving an equity and excellence percentage of 24.7 and a subsidized lunch percentage of 36.

• June 1, 2011—Langham Creek High School senior Kirby Kramer capped off her high school career by placing 12th at the UIL State Golf Championships, May 12-13, at Jimmy Clay Golf Course in Austin.

Kramer, CFISD’s lone representative at state, shot a 76 on day one and a 77 on day two to finish with a two-round total of 153.
Kramer was also one of three female 5A golfers at the state level to be named to the Academic All-State Team.
“I have to say this was the most amazing time that Kirby and I shared together. She went through her challenges but never let her goal out of sight,” said Langham Creek girls’ golf coach Carey Todd. “She is disciplined in all aspects of her life and that was proven by being only one of three Texas 5A Academic All State members. Kirby will be missed.”

• May 23, 2011— CFISD middle and high school students represented the district well at the Texas Technology Student Association (TTSA) State Contest, held May 5-7 in Waco.

The events ranged from national qualifier events in computer-aided design, which includes engineering design and architectural design, 3D modeling, CAD rendering, NASA HUNCH school display electronics and digital photography, as well as traditional woodworking and precision metal working.
Langham Creek High School had eight Best in State, 23 first-place, 10 second-place and three third-place awards. Seniors Elizabeth Castillo and John Ching qualified for the national competition for their architectural model of an industrial arts museum.

• May 17, 2011—CFISD had six top-10 finishing schools represent at the Texas Science Olympiad, held May 6-7 in College Station.  Langham Creek placed ninth with 232 points.  Kevin Dolan and Chris Tran, first place, Shock Value; Farhana Haque and Christina Stewart, second place,  Forensics; and Tony Li and Tony Tran, fourth place, Ecology.

• May 16, 2011— CFISD track and field athletes claimed one state championship and six top-three finishes at the UIL State Track and Field Championships, held May 13-15 at Mike A. Myers Stadium on the University of Texas campus.  Langham Creek High School sophomore Skylar Ross-Ransom placed fourth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.04.

• May 16, 2011— District 17-5A baseball and softball teams wrapped up their respective seasons in the playoffs last weekend. Langham Creek lost its best-of-three series in consecutive games to Memorial, 9-3 and 9-6. The Lobos finished as the third-place team in district and area finalists.

• April 8, 2011 — The Langham Creek High School boys and Cypress Ranch High School girls tennis teams won respective team championships in the District 17-5A Tennis Tournament, held April 5-7 at Cypress Woods High School.  The following athletes advanced to regionals: Boys’ Singles First Place – Steven McMullan, junior, Langham Creek.

• March 4, 2011 — A team of Langham Creek High School students beat out 13 other teams to clinch the championship in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) Dolphin Challenge Regional Competition, held at Texas A&M University in College Station on Saturday, Feb. 26.

The win puts the Lobos in the national competition, to be held in Galveston, April 28-May 1.
Coached by aquatic science teacher Timothy Kraemer, the team consists of Andrew Hu, junior captain; Nicolas Kasprzak, junior; Evan Assael, junior; Emily Martin-McKamie, senior; and Kevin Dolan, junior.
“The group has been meeting weekly since October. I’m very proud of the team for their continual effort and for winning the regional competition,” Kraemer said.
The NOSB is an academic competition that provides a forum for students to test their knowledge of the marine sciences including biology, chemistry, physics and geology. The NOSB was created in 1998 in honor of the International Year of the Ocean and since its inception, the competition has grown to include 25 regional competition locations with 300 schools and more than 2,000 students participating annually.

• February 28, 2011 — Ten CFISD wrestlers captured medals in their respective divisions and weight classes at the UIL Wrestling Championships, held Feb. 25-26 at the AISD Delco Center in Austin.  Langham Creek senior Shanay Colyar won silver in the 110-pound class.

• February 21, 2011 — CFISD swimmers clinched four gold medals at the UIL State Swimming & Diving Championships, held Friday and Saturday, Feb. 18-19, at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center in Austin.  Placing in the top 10 at state were the Langham Creek High School 200 freestyle relay team of Stuart Sharp, John Eno, Thomas McNulty and Austin VanOverdam (eighth place, 1:27.74).

• November 23, 2010 — Two-hundred-eighteen CFISD students have earned the designation of AP Scholar by the College Board in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college-level AP Exam. The AP program offers students the opportunity to take challenging college-level courses while still in high school and to receive college credit, advanced placement, or both, for their successful performance on the AP Exams. Only about 18 percent of the more than 1 million high school students who took the exam in May 2010 performed high enough to merit such recognition. The College Board recognizes several levels of achievement based on the number of year-long courses and exams (or their equivalent semester-long courses and exams).

AP Scholar Award - Students qualified for the AP Scholar Award by completing three or more AP Exams, with grades of 3 or higher: Langham Creek High School

• Aamena Ahmed, Daniel Baldwin, Alexandra Batista, Nicholas Boardley, Andrea Chaveleh, Matthew Colby, Pronoma Debnath, Alexandra Devine, Brett Forrester, Michael Gyarmathy, Farhana Haque, Sara Haque, Larry Heki, Andrew Hu, Mustafa Karagoli, Sean Lewis, Chad Markey, Gojko Matovic, Samantha Myers, Daniel Nguyen, Priyanka Patel, Andre Prouty, Amanda Rossy, Thomas Snitz, David Topper, Christopher Tran, Christopher Watt, Alec Wignall, Hannah Witherspoon and Brian Yeung.
• AP Scholar with Distinction Award - Eighty-seven CFISD students received the AP Scholar with Distinction Award for earning an average of 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams:  LCHS students were: Anderson Boyd, Whitney Chan, Mary Gilmore, Emily Gruener, Michael Hanigan, Chandler Klein, Kevin Land, San-Pei Lee, Thomas McNulty, Daniel Mooney, Jesal Shah, Oluwademilad Shoyombo, Brett Smith, Christina Stewart, Tony Tran, Kevin Wade and Taylor Womack.
• AP Scholar with Honor Award - One-hundred-three CFISD students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on four or more these exams: LCHS students were Sungsuk Cho, Ziyad Dadabhoy, Michael Gin, Meagan Leahy, Hunter Ledonne, Joshua Lukasek, Jaime Martinez, Andrew McClintic, Arianna Perkins, Madeline Pierce, Jonathan Rivera, Elizabeth Stewart, Vunsh Taneja, Robert Tellez and Anh Vo.

• November 23, 2010 — Thirty-four CFISD students have been confirmed as semifinalists in the 56th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The finalists will be honored at a National Merit recognition program at the Berry Center on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011—along with Commended, National Hispanic and National Achievement scholars.  National Merit semifinalists from Langham Creek High School are: Emily Gruener, Daniel Nguyen, Arianna Perkins and Jenna Tiffin.
• NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
  The 34 semifinalists, of the 15,000 throughout the U.S. selected by officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, now have the opportunity to win one of approximately 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards. Semifinalists placed among the top 1 percent and Commended Students placed among the top 3 percent of about 1.4 million students who entered the Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) during their junior year. CFISD had 90 total Commended Students.  Langham Creek High School’s Commended Students are: Whitney Chan, Sungsuk Cho, Michael Gin, Michael Gyarmathy, John Hoehner, San-Pei Lee, David Lumb, Jaime Martinez, Jonathan Rivera, Jesal Shah, Christina Stewart, Kevin Wade and Taylor Womack.
• The National Hispanic Recognition Program provides national recognition of the exceptional academic achievements of Hispanic high school seniors and identifies them for postsecondary institutions. Thirty-eight Hispanic Scholars and six honorable mention selections have been recognized as Scholars by the College Board’s National Recognition Program.

They are among a select group of 3,300 of the highest scoring students from a nationwide total of 124,000 high school juniors who took the PSAT/NMSQT and designated themselves as Hispanic.  From Langham Creek High School, Alexandra Devine, Jaime Martinez, Dylan Muñoz, Evan Peraza, Jonathan Rivera, Robert Tellez and James Treviño were named Hispanic Scholars.

• NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

The National Achievement Scholarship Program is an academic competition established in 1964 to provide recognition for outstanding Black American high school students. Black students may enter both the National Achievement Program and the National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) and meeting other published requirements for participation. The two annual programs are conducted concurrently but operated and funded separately. Of the more than 130,000 students who currently enter the National Achievement Program each year, approximately 4,600 are honored. A group of about 3,000 are referred to colleges for their potential for academic success. A smaller group of about 1,600 are named semifinalists.

• Eight CFISD students were named National Achievement Scholars, while eight students were referred to colleges by National Achievement.   The National Achievement honorees referred to colleges from Langham Creek High School are Thomas McNulty and Oluwademilad Shoyombo.

• November 5, 2010 — The Langham Creek, Cypress Woods and Cypress Falls high school marching bands capped off award-winning seasons at the UIL State Marching Contest, held Nov. 2 at the Alamodome in San Antonio.

Competing against 33 other bands from across the state, Langham Creek placed 20th in the preliminaries with a composite score of 97, Cypress Falls placed 23rd in the prelims with a composite score of 106 and Cypress Woods placed 24th in the prelims with a composite score of 111.
Prior to the UIL State Marching Contest, CFISD marching bands performed on Saturday, Oct. 30 in competitions around the Houston area. The Cypress Woods, Langham Creek and Cypress Creek bands all performed and were selected to the finals at the Sam Houston State Invitation Marching Contest. Additionally, the Cypress Ranch band was given an award for a superior performance.

• June 14, 2010 — Langham Creek and Cypress Creek high schools ranked among the top 1,500 U.S. high schools in the country, according to Newsweek’s annual list of America’s Best High Schools.

Newsweek picks the best high schools in the country based on how hard school staffs work to challenge students with advanced-placement college-level courses and tests. Just over 1,600 schools—only 6 percent of all the public schools in the U.S.—made the list.
Newsweek ranked the schools using an index determined by dividing the number of Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2009 divided by the number of graduating seniors. All of the schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000.
The Index includes a subsidized lunch percentage that determines the percentage of students receiving federally subsidized meals and an equity and excellence percentage that shows the portion of all graduating seniors that had at least one passing grade in one AP or IB test.
Langham Creek High School appeared in the rankings for the sixth consecutive year, earning a ranking of 1,354 with an index of 1.317. Langham Creek had an equity and excellence percentage of 24.5 and a subsidized lunch percentage of 35. The school ranked No. 1,288 in 2009, No. 1215 in 2008, No. 919 in 2007, No. 1,121 in 2006 and No. 974 in 2005.

Enrollment

3027 students as of 9/17/12

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Class Ranking

Beginning with courses taken between the eighth and ninth grade, all high school courses, including correspondence, night school, college courses taken for dual credit, credit-by-exam, and summer school, are averaged in the class rank with the exception of student assistance, local credit, and courses taken under the pass/fail option. High school courses taken by seventh- or eighth-grade students and completed by the end of the eighth-grade year will not count in class rank with the exceptions of Geometry, Biology, and the third or higher levels of a foreign language. (*See additional exceptions for Class of 2013.) Rank will be determined by grade point averages (G.P.A.) of the students. Estimated class rankings are to be determined at the end of the junior year and the first semester of the senior year for the express purpose of college entrance requirements. Another ranking shall be performed at the end of the fifth six-weeks’ grading period to identify summa cum laude, magna cum laude, and cum laude graduates. No valedictorian or salutatorian will be officially recognized at graduation.

Honor Graduate Designation

At graduation ceremonies, graduates will be recognized in the following categories: summa cum laude (6.5 G.P.A.), magna cum laude (6.25 G.P.A.), and cum laude (6.0 G.P.A.) . A final calculation of G.P.A. and class rank is determined at the end of the senior year and will be reflected on the final transcript which is sent to colleges.

Grading Scale

CFISD uses a weighted 6.0 grading scale.  Grade points are allocated for a course of study based on the designation of the course as indicated in the chart below.

The semester grades are computed by allocating a weight of 2/7 for each six weeks’ grade and 1/7 for a semester exam. A student will receive credit for each semester passed.  If the course is a two-semester sequence and the student passes the second semester after having failed the first, he/she may receive the credit for both semesters if the yearly average is passing (70+).

*For the Class of 2013, four mathematics and four science courses will be included in a student’s GPA calculation. If a student takes Algebra I in 8th-grade and takes four math courses in grades 9-12, the four math courses taken in high school will be included in the student’s GPA. But, if a student takes Algebra I in 8th-grade and only takes three math courses in grades 9-12, the Algebra I course will be included in the student’s GPA calculation. Algebra I taken at any time will carry L-level grade points.

Participation in Commencement

To be eligible to participate in commencement exercises a student must meet state graduation requirements by earning a minimum of 22 credits in designated courses.  Beginning with the class of 2015 (ninth graders entering high school in fall 2011), students must meet all credit and testing requirements to participate in commencement exercises.

Graduation Requirements for the Class of 2013

Students who enter the ninth grade in the fall of 2009 must enroll in courses necessary to complete the Recommended High School Program or the Distinguished Achievement Program unless the student, parent, and a school counselor agree that the student should be permitted to take courses under the Minimum High School Program. Students should study the table below which outlines requirements for the Recommended High School Program and the Minimum High School Program. Then, using the list of course descriptions, students should select and register for courses.  Note that students graduating under the Recommended High School Program will need to schedule additional courses not required for the Minimum High School Program. These courses include Algebra II, Chemistry, World Geography, foreign language (two credits), fine arts (one credit), and three state-approved electives. Additionally, beginning with the Class of 2011, students must earn 26 total credits including four math and four science credits. Counselors at each high school will furnish all other information necessary for students to complete registration.

Distinguished Achievement Program

Students desiring to earn the Distinguished Achievement Program transcript must complete the requirements for the Recommended High School Program plus one additional credit in languages other than English (foreign language) and any combination of four advanced measures selected from the following options:

• A score of three or above on The College Board Advanced Placement Examination.
• A grade of 3.0 or higher on courses that count for college credit, including tech-prep programs and dual credit courses.
• Original research/project conducted under the direction of mentor(s) reported to an appropriate audience and judged by a panel of professionals in the field that is the focus of the project.  Original research may not be used for more than two measures.
• A score on the PSAT that qualifies a student for recognition in one of these ways:  (1) Commended Scholar or higher by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, (2) National Achievement Scholarship Program for Outstanding Black Students, or (3) National Hispanic Scholar Program.  Note:  The PSAT score may only count as one advanced measure, regardless of the number of honors received by the student.

Note:   Math Models with Applications and AP Computer Science may not serve as math credits on the Distinguished Achievement Program (DAP). Additionally, Integrated Physics and Chemistry may not serve as a science credit on the DAP. 

Graduation Requirements for the Classes of 2014 and Beyond

Students who enter the ninth grade in the fall 2010 and thereafter must enroll in courses necessary to complete the Recommended High School Program or the Distinguished Achievement Program unless the student, parent, and a school counselor agree that the student should be permitted to take courses under the Minimum High School Program. Students should study the table below which outlines requirements for the Recommended High School Program and the Minimum High School Program. Then, using the list of course descriptions that follow, students should select and register for courses.  Note that students graduating under the Recommended High School Program will need to schedule additional courses not required for the Minimum High School Program. Counselors at each high school will furnish all other information necessary for students to complete registration.

Distinguished Achievement Program

Students desiring to earn the Distinguished Achievement Program transcript must complete the requirements for the Recommended High School Program plus one additional credit in languages other than English (foreign language) and any combination of four advanced measures selected from the following options:

• A score of three or above on The College Board Advanced Placement Examination.
• A grade of 3.0 or higher on courses that count for college credit, including tech-prep programs and dual credit courses.
• Original research/project conducted under the direction of mentor(s) reported to an appropriate audience and judged by a panel of professionals in the field that is the focus of the project.  Original research may not be used for more than two measures.
• A score on the PSAT that qualifies a student for recognition in one of these ways:  (1) Commended Scholar or higher by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, (2) National Achievement Scholarship Program for Outstanding Black Students, or (3) National Hispanic Scholar Program.  Note:  The PSAT score may only count as one advanced measure, regardless of the number of honors received by the student.

Note:  Math Models with Applications and AP Computer Science may not serve as math credits on the Distinguished Achievement Program (DAP). Additionally, Integrated Physics and Chemistry may not serve as a science credit on the DAP.