John Jay High School is a

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in the

Northside Independent School District Northside Independent School District is a school district headquartered in Leon Valley, Texas. It is the largest school district in the San Antonio area and the fourth largest in the State of Texas. Northside serves of urban landscape, sub ...

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and classified as a 5A school by the

University Interscholastic League The University Interscholastic League (UIL) is an organization that creates rules for and administers almost all athletic, musical, and academic contests for public primary and secondary schools in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the largest organ ...

. During 20222023, Jay High School had an enrollment of 2,248 students and a student to teacher ratio of 14.41. The school received an overall rating of "C" from the

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for the 20212022 school year.

History

All high schools in the Northside Independent School District (NISD) are named for US Supreme Court Justices, and the first Supreme Court Chief Justice was

John Jay John Jay (, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, diplomat, signatory of the Treaty of Paris (1783), Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served from 1789 to 1795 as the first chief justice of the United ...

. John Jay High also contains a

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, the John Jay Science and Engineering Academy.

Student Locator Project

On October 1, 2012, the high school and

Anson Jones Anson Jones (January 20, 1798 – January 9, 1858) was an American medical doctor, businessman, member of Congress, and the fourth and last president of the Republic of Texas. Early life Jones was born on January 20, 1798, in Great Barri ...

Middle School began the controversial "Student Locator Project." Students were required to wear school IDs embedded with

RFID Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder called a tag, a radio receiver, and a transmitter. When tri ...

microchips at all times. Student Andrea Hernandez was suspended from the school for refusing to wear the badge for religious reasons, linking it to the "mark of the beast" in the biblical book of Revelation. The Rutherford Institute filed a suit on behalf of Hernandez, and on November 21, 2012, a judge tentatively blocked the suspension. Hernandez was expelled from the school in January 2013. In July 2013, she was allowed to re-enter the school, which had abandoned the RFID project.

Athletics

The Jay Mustangs compete in these sports: *

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* Cross country *

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Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

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Softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...

* Swimming and diving *

Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

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Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

FIRST Robotics Competition FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an international high school robotics competition operated by ''FIRST''®. Each year, teams of high school students, coaches, and mentors work to build robots capable of competing in that year's game. Robots c ...

Championships

* 2002 5A State Champions in Boys' Basketball * 1991 5A State Champions in Girls' Volleyball

2015 football incident

On September 4, 2015, the athletic program attracted national attention after a game in which two players, identified as Victor Rojas and Michael Moreno, drove into the back of umpire Robert Watts during the final moments of the event. Rojas was ejected from the game and both were suspended from the team the next day. The two players were later suspended from school and an assistant coach, Mack Breed, who may have provoked the incident, was also suspended. The incident made national news. Breed admitted to ordering the hit, although he later recanted the statement. He resigned that same month. He later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault. Part of his sentencing included permanently surrendering his teaching license.

Notable alumni

* Scott Ankrom (Class of 1984) — Former NFL wide receiver. Played one season for the Dallas Cowboys. *

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings Maya Michelle Rockeymoore Cummings (born January 31, 1971) is an American consultant, politician, and former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party in the United States. Before her election as party chair, she briefly ran for Governor of Maryl ...

, political consultant *

Clarissa Davis Clarissa Davis (born June 4, 1967) is a former Texas women's basketball All-American, who is also known as Clarissa Davis-Wrightsil. She is a National Player of the Year, Olympic and pro standout, and was inducted into Women's Basketball Hall of ...

(Class of 1985) — Former NCAA basketball All-American and two-time Naismith National Player of the Year. Olympic and women's professional basketball standout. Inducted into The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006. * Derrick Hatchett (Class of 1975) — Former NFL player * Wallace B. Jefferson (Class of 1981) — Former Chief Justice, and first African American justice on the Supreme Court of Texas, 2004-2013. * Gina Ortiz Jones Iraq war veteran and Texas politician. * Rene Lira (Class of 1989) — Rowlett High School band director and official Cerveza Lite

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team mascot. * Thomas Lott (Class of 1974) — Former NFL player *

Mickey Mahler Michael James Mahler (born July 30, 1952) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played during eight seasons at the major league level for the Atlanta Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, California Angels, Montreal Expos, Detroit Tigers, Texas ...

(Class of 1970) — Former Major League pitcher. Played six seasons for three teams. * Rick Mahler (Class of 1971) — Former Major League pitcher. Played thirteen seasons for four teams, primarily the Atlanta Braves. *

Sammy Morris Samuel Morris III (born March 23, 1977) is a former American football running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots and Dallas Cowboys. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the f ...

(Class of 1995) — Former NFL running back. Played 12 seasons for four teams. *

Bo Outlaw Charles "Bo" Outlaw (born April 13, 1971) is an American former professional basketball player. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, and is a 1989 alumnus of John Jay High School. Outlaw led the Mustangs to a 38–0 record his senior year before ...

(Class of 1989) — Former NBA basketball player. Played 15 seasons for five teams. * Reuben Reina (Class of 1986) The most accomplished distance runner in Texas high school history. Former Olympian in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Inducted into both the University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame and the San Antonio Sports Hall of Fame. * Josh Reynolds (Class of 2013) — Current NFL wide receiver for the Detroit Lions * Chris Ross (Class of 2003) — Current professional basketball player in the Philippine Basketball Association. As a junior, sank a 50-foot half-court buzzer-beater to give Jay the 2002 Class 5A state basketball championship. *

Yolanda Saldívar Yolanda Saldívar () (born September 19, 1960) is an American former nurse who murdered singer Selena in Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 31, 1995. Saldívar had been the president of Selena's fan club and the manager of her boutiques, but she lo ...

— Convicted murderer of Latin music superstar

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, and currently serving a life sentence in the

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. Saldivar attended, but did not graduate from Jay. * Demetria Sance (Class of 1995) — Former Olympic volleyball player * Billy Smith (Class of 1971) — Former MLB Player *

Billy Taylor Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the a ...

(Class of 1973) — Former NFL player * Scott Thomas (Class of 1982) — Former All-American college football player (defensive back) at the Air Force Academy; elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2012. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross as a USAF F-16 combat pilot in Desert Storm. *

Jacob Zeno Jacob Zeno is an American college football quarterback for the Texas A&M Aggies. He previously played for the Baylor Bears and the UAB Blazers. Early life Zeno grew up in San Antonio, Texas and attended John Jay High School. During high scho ...

(Class of 2019) — College football quarterback for the

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and the

UAB Blazers The UAB Blazers are the varsity intercollegiate athletic programs that represent the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The school is one of the fourteen member institutions of the American Athletic Conference and participates in Divisi ...

References

External links

Northside Independent School District
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