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Winston Churchill High School (San Antonio, Texas)

high school in San Antonio, Texas, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ8026062 ↗
Source-derived summary

Winston Churchill High School in San Antonio, Texas is part of the North East Independent School District. The school serves portions of the city of San Antonio along with the towns of Hill Country Village and Hollywood Park. During 2022–2023, Churchill High School had an enrollment of 2,510 students and a student to teacher ratio of 15.74. For the 2024-2025 school year, the school was given a "C" by the Texas Education Agency, with distinctions for Academic Achievement in ELA/Reading and Mathematics.

History

Churchill High School is named after Sir Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Churchill first opened for classes in 1966, funded by a 1960 school district bond that also established Roosevelt High School and the Blossom Athletic Center.

Churchill has been twice named a National Blue Ribbon School, in 1982-83 and again in 1999-2000. In 2012, Churchill was ranked 8th on Children at Risk's Top 10 High Schools in Greater San Antonio.

The school mascot is the Charger while the British Union Flag and lion are used as additional symbols. The school was referenced in the 1996 movie Lone Star.

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“Winston Churchill High School (San Antonio, Texas)” enters the record as high school in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Winston, Churchill and High can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2023, 2024, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Winston, Churchill and High.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8026062. Authority coordinates are 29.550, -98.512. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Winston Churchill High School (San Antonio, Texas)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.