Lamar Consolidated High School

Open since 1949, and a lot of Riverpark West's neighbors went here. Lamar Consolidated is the original high school in the district, and after three-quarters of a century the alumni are the people behind the counter and at the next table.

Home of the Mustangs. The traditions have names of their own — the Mustang Band, the Fillies Dance Team, Mustang Playhouse, Mustang Media — and the campus runs The Leadership High School, a programme modelled on the adult civic leadership programmes run in cities. There is an alma mater and a fight song, and people know them.

Principal Michael Semmler has spent nearly thirty years in Lamar CISD and never worked anywhere else. The school says parents turn up for band, choir, drill team, the athletic booster clubs and a PTO.