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Kilgore High School is a public high school located in the city of Kilgore, Gregg County, Texas, United States and classified as a 4A school by the University Interscholastic League (UIL). It is a part of the Kilgore Independent School District located in southwest Gregg County .
Kilgore Independent School District is a public school district based in Kilgore, Texas . In addition to the city of Kilgore, the district serves rural areas in southern Gregg and northern Rusk counties. It includes a portion of Lake Cherokee. [1] [2] The district-wide dropout rate was recorded as 3.2% for 2015-2016. [3]
Kilgore was founded in 1872 when the International–Great Northern Railroad completed the initial phase of rail line between Palestine and Longview.The rail company chose to bypass New Danville, a small community about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Longview, in lieu of a new townsite platted on 174 acres (0.70 km 2) sold to the railroad by Constantine Buckley Kilgore, the town's namesake.
Kilgore attended Putnam County High School. He was rated as a three-star recruit , the number 44 safety, and the 43rd best prospect in the state of Georgia in the class of 2023. [ 1 ] Kilgore held offers from schools such as Clemson, Oklahoma, Michigan, Tennessee Tech, South Florida, Florida State, North Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky ...
Charles Wayne Simmons (September 15, 1931 – February 23, 2020) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas from 1967 to 1975 and Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas from 1976 to 1981.
Jones was considered one of the nation's best defensive linemen coming out of Kilgore High School in 2006.. Jones made all-state honorable mention as a sophomore, and was named District 17-4A Defensive Newcomer of the Year with 84 tackles (six for a loss), six sacks, eight passes broken up, three forced fumbles, and two fumble recoveries.
The following year he was an assistant football coach and head track and baseball coach at McKinney High School, in Mayo's hometown of McKinney. In 1965, he moved on to Kilgore High School in Kilgore, where he spent two years as offensive coach under head coach Jim Hess. In 1967, Mayo coached the backfield at Plano High School in Plano. [2]
The Kilgore College Rangerettes were founded by Gussie Nell Davis, a physical education instructor from Farmersville, Texas who had previously taken an all-girl's group called the "Flaming Flashes" from being a simple high school pep-squad to an elaborately performing drum and bugle corps in Greenville, Texas.