Travis High School, Public high school in Richmond, US
Travis High School is a public high school off Grand Parkway on Harlem Road in Pecan Grove, Fort Bend County, with a Richmond mailing address. Opened in 2006, it is Fort Bend ISD's tenth high school and its largest by enrollment, with 3,114 students in 2024–25. The south half of the campus holds a turfed football field and track, baseball and softball fields, three practice fields, eight tennis courts and a fieldhouse.
Travis High School opened on August 21, 2006, and was dedicated on October 15 of that year, becoming Fort Bend ISD's tenth high school. It is named after Texas pioneer William B. Travis. Its opening relieved Austin and George Bush high schools, with grades 9 and 10 zoned to Travis while grades 11 and 12 stayed at Austin, phased out one grade per year. In February 2023 the district approved new boundaries to ease overcrowding above 3,000 students.
The school hosts two Fort Bend ISD academies, the Global Studies Academy and the International Business and Marketing Academy. Its student council brings dogs to campus for stress relief before exam week, and the Marine Corps JROTC honor guard has appeared at Houston Dynamo games. The mascot is a tiger, with scarlet, gray and white colors.
The campus sits on Harlem Road off Grand Parkway/SH 99, surrounded by the Harvest Green neighborhood; shops including a Subway, Kung Fu Tea and an Exxon are just north and east of the site. The south half of the property holds the athletic facilities: a turfed football field and track, baseball and softball fields, three practice fields, eight tennis courts and a fieldhouse. The school carries a Richmond address but lies in Pecan Grove, in Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction, and neither the school nor the district serves any part of Richmond.
Travis High School's student council brings dogs onto campus for stress relief before exam week. The school is also one of the most racially diverse public high schools in Texas, and its Marine Corps JROTC honor guard has appeared at Houston Dynamo games.
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