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Welcome to Lamar High School

Principal: Rita Graves
Phone: 713-522-5960
Email: lamarhstexans@houstonisd.org

Mission Statement

M. B. Lamar High School encourages ALL students to be inquiring and knowledgeable individuals who can achieve their highest potential within an atmosphere of shared responsibility, academic challenge, intercultural understanding, and mutual respect.

Vision

The vision of Lamar High School is to provide a quality education in a safe, student-centered learning environment that facilitates high-quality educational opportunities for every student. Both faculty and staff will generate teaching and learning that supports critical thinking, high achievement, ethical behavior, and respect for intercultural diversity. Leadership, service, and positive character traits will be nurtured by and for all. Teachers, administrators, staff, students, and parents alike are charged with preparing each student to be productive citizens in a technological and global society.

Principal's Corner

Over the last few months, together with Loving Lamar, Menninger Clinic and Communities in Schools, we have secured a partnership that will allow us to get social emotional support to students sooner. Next year, all 10^th grade students, will have access to a screener that will help us and parents identify those attributes that help adolescents see success, and identify early those things that might take them off course. Parents will be able to opt their children in to take the screener or may choose not to have their child participate. Through grant funding, donations and local partnerships, our experts at Menninger will help us match families to resources when necessary. Over the next four years, we will be able to target support for nearly 3000 adolescents.

I asked the team at Menninger to join us for the PTO meeting next week to discuss how parents can navigate helping their teens develop healthy, safe relationships. I hope that you will join us!

Highlighted Events

Fri. May 9th: Spring Dance Show 6:15 PM (Gym)

Fri. May 9th: Senior Directed Plays 7:00 PM (Black Box)

Thu. May 15th-Wed. May 21st: Senior Finals 8:30 AM (LHS)

Bell Schedule

Please follow the bell schedule as listed. A warning bell rings at 8:25 AM and the tardy bell rings at 8: 30 AM. The school will be dismissed at 4:00 PM. If a student has an absence note, they may turn it in starting at 8:00 AM in their neighborhood.

To see the full bell schedule, click the following:

Bell Schedule

School News

Newsletter for the Week of May 8th, 2025

Every Thursday Lamar sends out a newsletter via school messenger to keep parents and students in the loop on what is happening on campus. Make sure you check here each Thursday to see what exciting things happened on campus.

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Senior Final Schedule

Seniors will take exams during their regularly scheduled periods on these days and exempt seniors must report to class for all periods to avoid absences that would make them ineligible for exemptions.

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Spring Final Exams

9th Grade - 11th Grade will be taking their second-semester finals on May 30, 2025 - June 4, 2025.

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Lamar Testing Calendar

Here is the latest updated Lamar HS Testing Calendar

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Admissions and Tours

We are thrilled to know that you are considering Lamar High School. We understand that the process of choosing a high school can be confusing and over whelming and you have a lot of options in here in Houston.

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Dress Code Policy

Lamar's Dress Code Policy will be enforced for the 2022-2023 school year. Students are required to wear blue or white collared shirts with the Lamar logo and khaki bottoms or jeans with no holes. Check out the full policy below.

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Clear Bag Policy

Starting August 22, 2022, all students will be required to use a clear back on campus. Some of you may be applauding the move, while I imagine there are others who find this to be an overreach. I would like to provide you with the reasoning.

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Who Can Help ?

There are lots of moving pieces on Lamar's campus. We know sometimes you do not know who can help. This list will help direct you in the right direction to getting the help you need.

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Neighborhood Assistant Principal or Academic Dean

Lamar believes in big school opportunities and a small school feel. To make this mission possible we split our student body into neighborhoods that allow each Assistant Principal and Academic Dean to work with a small group of students. To find out who your student's Assistant Principal and Academic Dean are please check the list.

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New Learning Management System : Canvas

HISD is implementing a new Learning Management System (LMS) to replace the HUB this school year with Canvas. Canvas will be used across the district to help students learn and grow. With any changes, we know there can be stress about learning a new tool. We have put together some helpful tip videos to ease the transition.

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