Palmview High School

Palmview High School is a Texas UIL Division 5A high school in the La Joya Independent School District named after the City of Palmview. The school is home to students that live on the east side of La Joya ISD.

Palmview High School: Past to Present

La Joya ISD has been home to a single high school entity since the district (then known as Tabasco ISD) erected Nellie Schunior Memorial High School in 1926, six years after the death of Nellie Leo Schunior, the first education pioneer in the district's current boundaries. La Joya High School was later created, in order to house the growing number of students that Nellie Schunior Memorial High School could not accommodate. As the years rapidly passed, the communities within the district boundaries began to flourish, and the district population exploded. La Joya High School, being the sole high school within the 226 square miles of land, grew to enormous proportions. For a long time, La Joya High School housed 9-12 grades. Eventually, the student population grew too much and a separate Ninth Grade Campus was built adjacent to La Joya High School. This new Ninth Grade Campus proved to be too small by the year 1999, so a larger and brand new Ninth Grade Campus was built, opening its doors to students in October 2000. As the Freshman Class of 2000 was housed at the brand new Ninth Grade Campus, the remodeling project to expand the old Ninth Grade Campus went underway. By the year 2002, La Joya ISD was home to three high schools, but still only had one senior class, as all three campuses (conveniently located next to each other) shared students. La Joya High School became known as La Joya Senior High School (housing only 11th and 12th graders), the 2000 Ninth Grade Campus changed its name to Juarez-Lincoln High School (housing half of the 9th and 10th grade students), and the newly-remodeled old Ninth Grade Campus became Jimmy Carter High School (housing the other half of the 9th and 10th grade students). Once again, population spurts in western Hidalgo County helped to overcrowd all three high schools. La Joya ISD had no choice but to split the district into three separate high schools, and for the first time ever, have multiple senior classes, multiple sports teams, and multiple mascots. The 2008-2009 school year became the inaugural year for both the Juarez-Lincoln Huskies, and the Palmview Lobos. With a much smaller student population, Juarez-Lincoln High School was classified as a 4A school, but Palmview High School, with a student population parallel with La Joya High School, was classified as a 5A school. In January 2009, the official Palmview High School campus opened 2 1/2 miles north La Homa Road in Mission. The new campus, while still under some construction, is the permanent home of the Lobos. Jimmy Carter High School, which housed PHS for a semester, is now vacant and getting ready to house the upcoming Juan De Dios Salinas Sr. Middle School.

Past principals

Athletics

Lobo Football

La Joya ISD suffered a tremendous hit with the division of one high school into three. The Palmview Lobos share their home turf with La Joya Coyotes and Juarez-Lincoln Huskies at La Joya Stadium, a 12,500-seating capacity stadium which opened in 2000. It is often referred to as the best-looking stadium in South Texas, and has been home to international soccer games, BOA Regional marching band contests, and many more.

But the second year in lobo teretory the Lobos gained respeced after a victory to there sister school La Joya High School. The boys also had fantastic plays and better connection with each other.

Other sports

Football Baseball Golf Softball Soccer Track and Field Volleyball Weightlifting Wrestling CrossCountry 2009-2010 District Champs

            2009-2010 Region Champs

The sport of wrestling has been a very successful program Palmview, palmview created 3 district champs and a second placer at the regional level, Mario Montelongo, the head coach for the palmview wrestling program, has a successful past history in wrestling sport, which is expected that he will make of palmview an envy wrestling team, with palmview's second year, other districts already know that Palmview is a power house in the sport of wrestling

Fine arts

Palmview Lobo Marching Band

La Joya High School had built a tradition of excellence within the band program, classifying four consecutive times (1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004) for the Texas State UIL 5A Marching Contest above many other Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Corpus Christi and San Antonio schools. With the split, La Joya divided its musicians into the three high schools. Now, the Palmview Lobo Band marches to the motto "The Pride of the Pack". They won the 2008 USSBA Group IV A Texas State Championship, the first win for the brand-new program. In the Spring of 2009 the Palmview High School Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Director of Bands Mr. Jacob Banda, received the coveted UIL Sweepstakes Award for their performance at the UIL Concert & Sight reading contest. This marks the first Sweepstakes award for the band in its inaugural year.(Mr. Jacob Banda was also selected as the first "Teacher of the Year" for Palmview High School.)

'Palmview High School Choir The P.H.S. LOBO choir, started off with a rough start the 2008-2009 school year after being split in three... although they overcame this obstacle and with the direction of Mr. Andres Lopez and Accompanist Mr. Arturo Rodriguez they received sweepstakes at UIL Contest and Sight reading Competition. This was the First Sweepstakes in the history of the choir program, all judges awarded them with a 1 rating. At the 2010 Concert and Sight reading Competition the Palmview Lobo Choir made history once again! As a FIRST year Varsity choir it was very difficult. With an all new level of music they had to accomplish they did outstanding. In the Sight reading room ALL three judges awarded them a Score of A 1 which is not only the highest score you can achieve but they gave them a standing ovation for doing a remarkable job. No judging panel had done this before for a choir. On stage they received a score of a 1, 2, 2 a great job. Congratulations to the PHS VARSITY CHOIR ONCE AGAIN!

Mariachi "Lobos", Grupo Folklorico "Ozomatili", & Conjunto "La Tradicion"

For the first time ever, Mariachi "Lobos", Grupo Folklorico "Ozomatili" and Conjunto "La Tradicion" performed together to showcase the Hispanic traditions of not only the student population, but of the community as well. Their debut performance lasted two hours. Mariachi "Los Lobos" got 3rd place in the hardest mariachi competition. Our vocalist Angela Salas got 2nd place in vocal competition. On May 1, 2010 the Mariachi received 1st place in the Zapata Competition and also received best string section, best vocals, and best armonia.

Other Clubs/Organizations

Palmview National Honor Society Palmview Media Society Palmview Rubies (Dance/Drill Team) H.O.S.A. (Health Occupations Students of America) S.W.A.T. (Students With A Testimony) Lobos Computer Science Team Palmview HS Reading Club Gear Up GO Center J.R.O.T.C. F.F.A. (Future Farmers of America) Cosmetology Palmview High School Student Council (Advisor: Ms. Marquez) Palmview High School Math Club Hispanic National Honor Society Palmview High School Choir Palmview High School Senior Class

New Traditions

Alma mater

Palmview's school song, "Alma Mater", uses the music of La Joya High School's original Alma Mater, with some alterations by Robert Flores, one of Palmview's band directors. The words to the song were written by Akza Rios, a 2010 Senior of the school, and approved by the La Joya Independent School District School Board of Trustees and the Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Alda T. Benavides. The words were officially unveiled at Palmview High School's 2009 Senior Class Graduation held at the then-called Dodge Arena (now State Farm Arena) in Hidalgo, Texas.

"Hail to the Red and Black Colors of the Prideful Pack. Honor and Glory be Always for Thee. We Live and We Fight for You And promise to be Loyal too. Oh Alma Mater, we sing to Thee: Honor to the Red and Black!"

Texas Fight

Palmview's fight song, "Texas Fight", is the University of Texas fight song.

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