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Mirabeau B. Lamar Senior High School is a secondary school located in Houston, Texas, United States. Lamar High School, which serves grades 9 through 12, is part of the Houston Independent School District. Lamar, which is located in the Upper Kirby district,〔"(Harris County Improvement District #3 )." ''Upper Kirby''. Retrieved on December 10, 2008.〕 serves the Houston neighborhoods of River Oaks and Montrose, the incorporated city of West University Place, a portion of the city of Southside Place, and other Houston subdivisions. The school has a business magnet program offering business management courses, as well as cooperation with the Houston business community to provide internships and university scholarships. The school handles grades nine through twelve. Lamar High School has neighborhood, Advanced Placement, and IB Diploma Programme (International Baccalaureate) programs. Lamar has one of two high school level IB Diploma programs in the Houston Independent School District and, therefore, is one of HISD's seven IB World Schools.〔"(Mirabeau B. Lamar Senior High School )," ''International Baccalaureate Organization''〕 Lamar High School consistently has the greatest number of students who graduate with the IB Diploma in Texas.〔"(Extra effort in classroom pays off )," ''Houston Chronicle'', January 3, 2007〕 Lamar offers many International Baccalaureate Diploma classes, including five foreign languages: Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian. In 1999 Lamar's IB program was the 14th largest such program in the country.〔Grossman, Wendi. "(IB or Not IB )" ((Archive )). ''Houston Press''. Thursday January 14, 1999. Retrieved on September 22, 2015.〕 The school's mascot for its sports teams is the Lamar Texans. ==History== In the 19th century Michael Louis Westheimer, a German immigrant who arrived in Houston in 1859, bought a farm at an auction for $2.50 per acre. On his property Westheimer established a school for local children, including some of his relatives from Germany. The path to the school became "Westheimer's Road," now called Westheimer Road.〔"(Historic Houston Streets: The Stories Behind the Name )"〕〔Robertson, Dale. "(Westheimer was a place for learning )" ((Archive )). ''Houston Chronicle''. Friday January 11, 2008. Sports 9. Retrieved on December 4, 2010. "Paying $1,600 - or $2.50 an acre, at an auction - he bought a 640-acre farm west of town where Lamar High School and St. John's School now sit. "〕 The Houston Independent School District built and established Lamar on the former site of Westheimer's farm.〔 Earlier the Southampton Civic Club attempted to persuade Houston ISD to build Lamar at a lot along Kirby and West Alabama; the attempt failed and Lamar was built across from River Oaks.〔Verniaud, Marshall. "(A Brief History of the Southampton Civic Club )" ((Archive )) ''Southampton Civic Club Inc.'' Accessed November 7, 2008. "A painful disappointment was the club's inability to persuade the school board to build a new highschool on a tract at Kirby and West Alabama instead of on Westheimer across from River Oaks. The board chose the Westheimer site for its Mirabeau B. Lamar High School."〕 HISD board member Ray K. Daily, then the sole female on the board, attended and participated in the March 13, 1936 groundbreaking. The initial name for the school was "Southwest High School."〔Sloan, p. 8.〕 Lamar opened in 1937 along Westheimer Road which was not paved.〔"(School Histories: the Stories Behind the Names )." ''Houston Independent School District''. Accessed September 24, 2008.〕 The opening relieved pressure on San Jacinto High School in what is now Midtown.〔Becker, Ann Dunphy and George Murray. ''Houston's River Oaks''. Arcadia Publishing, April 29, 2013. p. (43 ). ISBN 1439642362, 9781439642368.〕 When the school opened it had 1,310 students, mostly from Bellaire, West University Place, Montrose, Southampton, and Southgate. In 1938 10% of the students resided in River Oaks.〔Sloan, p. 10.〕 William Broyles of the ''Texas Monthly'' wrote that in its pre-desegregation history Lamar was the public equivalent of an exclusive prep school" and Houston's "society school".〔Broyles, William. "Behind the Lines." ''Texas Monthly''. Vol. 3, No. 3. Emmis Communications, March 1975. ISSN 0148-7736. p. (5 ).〕 In that period Lamar was the designation of children of Houston's most prominent families who attended public high schools.〔Curtis, Gregory. "(Pomp and Circumstance )" ((Archive )). ''Texas Monthly''. Vol. 3, No. 3. Emmis Communications, March 1975. ISSN 0148-7736. p. (59 ).〕 Many students in the 1950s had referred to River Oaks Boulevard as the only street with a country club at both ends. One was the River Oaks Country Club, and the "other" was Lamar High School.〔〔 Gregory Curtis of the ''Texas Monthly'' wrote that "Lamar has always had a reputation as a school of snobs" within Houston's public school system.〔 Lamar grew rapidly to the point where Robert E. Lee High School was built in 1962 to relieve Lamar.〔Grossman, Wendy. "Tee Time." ''Houston Press''. November 13, 2003. (1 ).〕 Lee's first principal, Woodrow Watts, was previously the principal of Lamar.〔Curtis, Gregory. "(Pomp and Circumstance )" ((Archive )). ''Texas Monthly''. Vol. 3, No. 3. Emmis Communications, March 1975. ISSN 0148-7736. p. (54 ).〕 Harold Costlow became Lamar's principal in 1962.〔Curtis, Gregory. "(Pomp and Circumstance )" ((Archive )). ''Texas Monthly''. Vol. 3, No. 3. Emmis Communications, March 1975. ISSN 0148-7736. p. (60 ).〕 After its opening, Lee became Lamar's primary athletic rival.〔Curtis, Gregory. "(Pomp and Circumstance )" ((Archive )). ''Texas Monthly''. Vol. 3, No. 3. Emmis Communications, March 1975. ISSN 0148-7736. p. (54 ).〕 Lamar integrated in the 1970s. Broyles wrote that Lamar integrated quietly and "not so much as an experiment in integration but simply as a school, a place where adolescents learn many things, some of them in the classroom."〔 Due to integration many of the wealthier families instead sent their children to private schools.〔 Lamar became an IB school in 1982.〔"(HISD seeks special courses )," ''Houston Chronicle'', February 9, 2006〕 In 1987 the school had held its 50th anniversary. It had sent invitations to Tommy Tune, Robert Foxworth, Jaclyn Smith, Tommy Sands, Carlin Glynn, Paula Prentiss, and Candy Tovar. The plan for the outdoor festivities called for Mayor of Houston Kathy Whitmire, former Governor of Texas Mark White, former Mayor of Houston Fred Hofheinz, Superintendent of HISD Joan Raymond, and others were scheduled to give special presentations.〔Mesinger, Maxine. "(Lamar High marks 50th anniversary )." ''Houston Chronicle''. Friday August 7, 1987. Houston 1. Retrieved on October 13, 2012.〕 The Business Administration Magnet Program was established in 1989.〔(Archived home page ). ''Lamar High School''. February 7, 2004.〕 In September 1991 Lamar was one of 32 HISD schools that had capped enrollments: The school was at capacity and excess students had to attend other schools.〔Markley, Melanie. "(32 schools hit enrollment cap )." ''Houston Chronicle''. Thursday September 26, 1991. A17. Retrieved on April 24, 2009.〕 The graduating class of 2009 had the largest number of seniors Lamar ever had, with 886 students. The next class dropped to a little over 600 students. Fran Callahan, a resident of the Old Braeswood neighborhood of Houston, founded the Lamar Alumni Association around 1998 and became its executive director. She decided to create an alumni association after she inquired about making a large-scale fundraising campaign and learned that Lamar, which had many famous individuals as alumni, had no alumni association.〔Viator, Lisa. "(Area resident leader sets $3 million goal for Lamar / Fran Callahan founded school's alumni association )." ''Houston Chronicle''. Thursday May 11, 2006. ThisWeek 2. Retrieved on October 22, 2012.〕 In 2003 the class of 1953, which included business owners, a film producer, a Nobel prize winner, a nominee for U.S. Secretary of State and a former assistant of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, lawyers, engineers, and an architect, held its 50th reunion. A tour of the Lamar campus and a formal buffet and dance at the Houston Country Club was scheduled for Saturday November 8, 2003. A brunch was scheduled at the University Club in the morning of Sunday November 9, 2003.〔Martin, Betty L. "(THE LUCKY ONES / Lamar class of '53 to come together )." ''Houston Chronicle''. Thursday November 6, 2003. ThisWeek 1. Retrieved on October 14, 2012.〕 In 2004, Tune performed at Lamar.〔 Foxworth and Jaclyn Smith attended the performance.〔"(TOMMY TUNE Takes Lamar High School By Storm )." ''Lamar High School''. April 12, 2004.〕 In 2006 Callahan started a $3 million capital campaign to raise money for the school.〔 In 2007 22% of high-school-age children zoned to Lamar chose to attend a different Houston ISD school.〔Radcliffe, Jennifer. "(Critics: In HISD, too many don't go where zoned / Black leaders argue bond has no fix to get kids back to schools in their neighborhoods )" ((Archive )). ''Houston Chronicle''. Sunday October 14, 2007. B1 MetFront.〕 In 2009 the increasing number of students taking university preparatory classes applied to public universities due to the late-2000s recession.〔Hastings, Karen. "(SCHOOL REPORT CARD Lamar High elite face economic challenge More top honor students apply to public universities )." ''Houston Chronicle''. Thursday April 16, 2009. ThisWeek 1. Retrieved on May 1, 2009.〕 In 2010 Lamar, which has a capacity of 2,525, was 740 students over capacity; Lamar is popular with students who do not want to attend their home schools.〔Mellon, Ericka. "(Closing schools going to be tough )." ''Houston Chronicle''. December 20, 2010. Retrieved on December 21, 2010.〕 In 2010 Magnet Schools of America, a nonprofit, released a report recommending that Lamar's magnet program be abolished, due to overcrowding.〔Mellon, Ericka. "(Report: HISD should drop 55 magnet programs )." ''Houston Chronicle''. January 7, 2011. Retrieved on January 7, 2011.〕 In 2014 Terry Grier stated that Lamar should reduce its enrollment to around 3,000 students.〔Mellon, Ericka. "(Grier: 3 popular HISD high schools must reduce enrollment )." ''Houston Chronicle''. October 16, 2014. Retrieved on October 17, 2014.〕 Anne Sloan, a former Lamar English teacher and a resident of the Houston Heights, wrote the book ''The History of Mirabeau B. Lamar High School''. The Lamar Alumni Association had commissioned this book.〔Matusow, Catherine. "(The Latest Evidence that Life is Like High School )" (interview) ((Archive )). ''Houstonia''. November 30, 2013. 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