Accolades
Congratulations to Jahan Rabii and Alex Crisara who WON FIRST PLACE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS Science Fair in Engineering Materials and Bio-engineering. Their project titled, “Efficient Algae-Based Life Support For Long Duration Spaceflight” also won the National Space Society Award and was named “Best in Fair”. They will be moving on with the other Top Ten Projects to the International Science Fair to be held Phoenix in May. Our congratulations go out to Jahan and Alex and their sponsoring science teachers, Joel Taylor and Mary Eastberg.
Donna Houser was named AISD Principal of the Year and Matt Earhart earned Teacher of the Year for AISD at the May Austin Partners in Education ceremony.
Named to the Texas Business and Education Coalition Honor Roll as one of the top fifteen high schools in Texas.
Newsweek has named Anderson one of the Best Public High Schools, ranking in the top 6% nationwide.
The Washington Post named Anderson one of the Top 500 High Schools in the nation and one of the Top 50 High Schools in Texas (public, private, charter or magnet).
The Texas ACT Council presented Anderson with the 2011 College Readiness Award.
Numerous Gold Achievement Awards from the Texas Education Agency including commended improvement in Math and AP/IB and SAT/ACT performance.
Anderson's SAT and ACT scores exceeded district, state & national overall average scores for the sixth year in a row.
Anderson's average SAT score of 1693 is higher than the State Average of 1434 and the National Average of 1498. Likewise, our average ACT score of 24.7 is higher than the State Average of 20.8 and the National Average of 21.1.
Congratulations to the Anderson Speech and Debate Team for being named to the "Top Ten" by the National Forensic League. This designation recognizes Anderson Speech and Debate as among the top 10% of Speech and Debate teams in the nation. Congratulations to Mr. Uhler, Mr. Sanford, our students and parents for a wonderful week of recognition as a top state and national Speech and Debate team.
The Anderson Marching Band competed with 58 bands from the middle US at the St. Louis Super Regional. Anderson finished 5th out of 58, their highest finish in this type of competition in school history. Congratulations on this national recognition.
Choir students competed in the first round of All-State Auditions. 71% of our students that competed are performing in the Region Concert! 24 of our students are advancing to the Pre-Area round of competition held here on November 27. Congratulations Choir.
Cathryne McNamara has been named Outstanding Teacher of the Humanities by Humanities Texas, one of 12 teachers in Texas to be chosen from over 200 public and private schools in the state. We are proud of you Cathryne!
Congratulations to Dennis Harms for being selected as Texas Gifted and Talented Administrator of the Year.
6 Anderson Students Named National Merit Semifinalists! Alex Frame, Caitlin Hempstead, Christian Kamm, Amanda Meriwether, Sarah Money, Carley Santori and Christina Wu.
Anderson High School Chinese Program is accepted into the Hanban – Asia Society Confucius Classrooms Network, a network of 60 exemplary high school Chinese programs in the nation to serve as national models of excellence in the field of Chinese language teaching and learning.
Sophia Ajuria-Easterday and Kara McKay, had their Animated Short titled "Dinner" accepted to be shown at the 2013 Austin Film Festival! This is a very prestigious acceptance where hundreds, if not thousands, of festival goers from around the world will see their film on the big screen. We are certainly proud of these young ladies.