Why should you choose the Science and Engineering Magnet for your high school career?

The School of Science and Engineering has acquired many awards and honors over the years.

The following is a short list for your consideration of our success.

• Number 1 school in USA for the overall number of African American and Hispanic Students passing the AP Calculus Exams
• Chosen by Newsweek magazine as the number 6 public high school in the USA
• 2005 National Blue Ribbon Award winner
• Robotics Voice Recognition Science Fair Project placed fourth in World.
• With only 400 students in the entire school, we are in the top 10 Texas High Schools for passing numbers on the AP Calculus Exam for all schools of ANY size.
• We have one of only five working electron microscopes in high schools throughout the USA.
• Fast-Track in math, science, English and computer science
• We have been adopted by the University of Texas at Dallas Engineering Department and adopted and sponsored by Texas Instruments.
• Many of the teaching staff of SEM have had “real world” jobs in research and engineering that give us the ability to answer the questions of where scientific principles are used. 
• We have two PhD's and 75 percent   of the faculty have Master’s degrees.   Nine of our 18 teachers have taught at the college or university level.
• We have major industrial adopters that offer college internships for engineering majors, including Texas Instruments.
• In 2004 our 102 graduating seniors were offered a total of $5.3 million dollars in scholarships.