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Ross Shaw Sterling High School is a secondary school located in Houston, Texas. Sterling, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. The school was named after Ross S. Sterling. Sterling has Houston ISD's magnet program for Aviation Sciences. ==History== Ross S. Sterling High School opened as a junior/senior high school (grades 7–12) in the fall of 1965. This unique, three-building campus featured designed-in air-conditioning which was a new, yet essential, feature for HISD facilities. The Sterling campus had a mirror twin sister campus, James Madison Jr./Senior High School, that opened at the same time as Sterling. The first principal of Sterling was A.P. (Pete) Dowling, an experienced educator and administrator with HISD. During the 1967 school year, local radio station KILT staged an enormous promotion contest between area high schools. The contest was simple: Each school had to submit as many individual paper entries as possible with the name of the high school on each sheet. The winning school would be the one that submitted the most pounds of paper. The contest created a lot of non-value added time in many classrooms as reams of copy paper and thousands of boxes of computer punch cards were submitted. Ross Sterling was the winner. The primary prize for winning was a school dance sponsored by KILT featuring a regional band named Southwest F.O.B. Sterling became a senior high school (grades 10–12) exclusively with the 1968–1969 school year. The Blue Raider football team made its first playoff appearance during the 1970 season when it emerged as district champion. The Raiders then defeated Robert E. Lee in bid-district play but were then victims to the Sam Houston High juggernaut in the area round of the playoffs. During the 1984-1985 school year, the percentages of Fs at 23 of 26 HISD high school campuses decreased in the spring semester because of the state-implemented No Pass No Play rule, which requires students in high school athletic programs to attain passing grades. At Sterling and Barbara Jordan High School for Careers, the percentages of Fs remained the same.〔Hunt, Dianna. "(Fewer failing grades since start of no-pass rule )." ''Houston Chronicle''. Saturday June 29, 1985. Section 1, Page 22. Retrieved on December 8, 2011.〕 Linda Turner, the president of the Sterling High School PTO, stated that HISD promised to revamp Sterling after the 1998 and the 2007 bond elections passed, but that nothing improved. Her group accused the school of misleading the people by stating that Sterling and Jones High School would both receive new school campuses.〔Downing, Margaret. "Sterling High School: Keeping It All Together." ''Houston Press''. Wednesday May 8, 2013. p. (1 ). Retrieved on February 23, 2014.〕 After the 2012 bond, the district began indicating that Jones would be consolidated into Sterling.〔Downing, Margaret. "Sterling High School: Keeping It All Together." ''Houston Press''. Wednesday May 8, 2013. p. (2 ). Retrieved on February 23, 2014.〕 As of 2010 about half of the HISD students zoned to Sterling did not attend that school.〔Mellon, Ericka. "(HISD faces politically tough choices in closing schools )." ''Houston Chronicle''. December 20, 2010. Retrieved on February 22, 2014.〕 In 2011 the Class of 1971 was to celebrate its 40th anniversary.〔Palmer, Christian. "(Sterling High class of '71 to reunite )" ((Archive )). ''Houston Chronicle''. Monday June 27, 2011. Retrieved on November 21, 2015.〕 In January 2012 E. Dale Mitchell, a White American man who previously served as the principal of Hutto Middle School in Hutto, Texas and worked in the Stafford Municipal School District, became the principal of Sterling.〔Downing, Margaret. "(Sterling High School: Keeping It All Together )." ''Houston Press''. Wednesday May 8, 2013. Retrieved on November 20, 2015.〕 As of 2013, the school had 900 students, and 1,100 HISD students living in the school's attendance zone opted not to attend Sterling. The school had its third principal in a five year period. Mitchell stated that there were 61-66 students combined who transferred to Sterling to attend the aviation program or the Futures Academy. Margaret Downing of the ''Houston Press'' argued that the figure was not "an impressive number".〔 Downing wrote that "Whoever erected it, there's a rather sizable wall of distrust between HISD and the Sterling community."〔Downing, Margaret. "Sterling High School: Keeping It All Together." ''Houston Press''. Wednesday May 8, 2013. p. (3 ). Retrieved on February 23, 2014.〕 As part of the 2014-2015 rezoning, residents of Southcrest, residents of South Park located east of Martin Luther King Boulevard, and some residents of the East End〔"(Map )." East End Management District. Retrieved on March 8, 2010.〕 will be rezoned from Jones High School to Sterling.〔"(AGENDA Board of Education Meeting March 13, 2014 )." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on March 15, 2014. "Proposed Attendance Boundaries" New 03/06/04 Attachment F-1 March 2014 p. 24/119.〕 In 2015 Mitchell became the principal of Waltrip High School. Justin Fuentes, formerly a high school support officer, became the principal of Sterling.〔Mellon, Ericka. "(HISD names Yates, Sterling, Westbury High principals )" ((Archive )). ''Houston Chronicle''. June 5, 2015. Retrieved on November 20, 2015.〕 As of 2015 HISD has plans to build a new campus for Sterling. It is a part of the 2012 bond.〔Martin, Joe. "(HISD plans new aviation high school )" ((Archive )). 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