Kempner High School has received the “2011 College Readiness Award” from the Texas ACT Council. This award is based on student performance on the ACT Assessment and significant increases in their level of achievement and college readiness.
Only 10% of college high schools in Texas received this honor.
 
Thank you to our students, our faculty and staff and our parents and community. Go Kempner Cougars!

In 2010 Kempner earned 4 Gold Performance Acknowledgments in the areas of Attendance Rate, College-Ready, Commended students and TX Success Initiative Math
 
In 2011 Kempner earned 6 Gold Performance Acknowledgments in the same 4 areas as last year and in AP and TX Success Initiative ELA.
 
AWESOME COUGS!!!

Click the link for information regarding the 2011-2012 KHS student groups and organizations at KHS.

Kempner High School has received the “2010 College Readiness Award” from the Texas ACT Council for maintaining or increasing the number of students taking the ACT Assessment over the past five years and significantly increasing their level of achievement and college readiness. The ACT assessment is the college admissions test that is used and accepted by all colleges nationwide and throughout Texas. Less than 6% of all high schools in Texas were honored for this superior level of accomplishment. Way to go Kempner Cougars- we have awesome students!
 

The KHS Student Supplemental Handbook.

The FBISD Student Handbook/Code of Conduct

At Kempner we students are supported to not only pursue academic achievement but also to develop their character through service and participation in extracurricular programs. As a faculty, our goal is to create a Relevant Systematic Community that is built upon positive professional relationships and integrity with all of our stakeholders.

The mission of Kempner High School faculty and staff, committed to the belief that education makes a difference and that each student is unique and capable of learning, is to create an atmosphere of trust to maintain high expectations for students, to foster an environment conducive to learning and to provide opportunities for everyone to succeed.

Kempner High School
14777 Voss Road
Sugar Land, TX 77498
 

From 2011-2012:
- KHS Speech and Debate placed in the Top 10% of chapters nationwide and has earned membership in the prestigious “100 Club.”
- 7 KHS students are Commended in the 2012 National Merit Program
 

From 2010-2011:
- Improved campus rating from Acceptable to Recognized
- November 2010, KHS AFJROTC competed against 183 Air Force JROTC teams from across the nation. The Academic Bowl competition covered SAT preparatory subjects like Math, English, Science, Social Studies, and Current Events with a little JROTC knowledge added for good measure. Kempner qualified along with 15 other schools from the Texas/Louisiana area and will compete for one of two spots advancing to the Championship to be held June 24-28 in Washington, D.C.
- A KHS student Fort Bend Falcon Special Olympics Team participated in the Area 22 Bowling Tournament and was awarded the gold medal and advanced to the State competition
- A KHS student was named to the All-State Women's Choir
- KHS was named a 2010 National Center for Educational Achievement Higher Performing School
- A KHS teacher was selected as the FBISD Secondary ESL Teacher of the Year
- Many students received academic and athletic scholarships
- KHS had over 100 Advanced Placement Scholars

The regular Bell Schedule for KHS is as follows:
1st- 7:30 - 8:25
2nd- 8:30 - 9:20
3rd -9:25 - 10:15
4th- 10:20 - 11:10
5th- 11:15 -12:40

LUNCHES

A - 11:10 - 11:40
B - 11:40 - 12:10
C - 12:10 - 12:40

6th-12:45 - 1:35
7th- 1:40 - 2:30

Dr. Anthony Indelicato, Principal
Jennifer Nichols, Associate Principal & Donna Minix, Lead Counselor (N-R)
Matthew McCabe, Asst. Principal & Renee Edwards, Counselor (A-C)
Kyle Lovetinsky, Asst. Principal & Erin Swanson, Counselor (D-I)
Larry Patterson, Asst. Principal & Jennifer Kipping, Counselor (J-M)
Kevin Morrow, Asst. Principal & Kerry Jongeward, Counselor (S-Z)

In 1984, Fort Bend county authorized a bond issue that allowed the construction of the fourth high school in Fort Bend county.

Issac Herbert Kempner, founder of Imperial Sugar, has contributed much to Sugar Land, and for this the school was named after him. The first Kempner principal was decided by the board on January 11, 1988 to be Mr. Wayne Emerson. He was dedicated to his work and students. The anticipation was over when Kempner opened its doors to the first Open House on August 30, 1988 at 7:30 p.m. The $15,522,300 school contained 55.88 acres of pecan trees, a 750 seat auditorium, and 100 faculty and staff members. In 1990 Kempner graduated its first senior class.

When Kempner first opened, the area surrounding it was isolated and mostly agricultural; in fact Highway 6 was only two-laned at the time. In the past years, the school has witnessed growth in both enrollment and suburban change in the surrounding areas. At one point Kempner had 3,000 enrolled students.

Kempner serves a diverse population of students who benefit from the strong academic focus and wide range of extra curricular offerings. The students that graduate from Kempner go on to change the world. Students from Kempner have become doctors, scientists, engineers, teachers, politicians, professional athletes and many other contributing members to society.

In the 1999-2000 school year, Dr. James May became the new principal following Dr. Wayne Emerson and served the students and staff of Kempner until his retirement in June of 2008. Under Dr. May, Kempner continued its tradition of academic excellence and its reputation as a school for all students.
 
Troy Mooney became the 3rd principal of Kempner High School and served in that capacity until July of 2010. During that time KHS achieved recognition as a Recognized High School from the Texas Education Agency as well as a 96th percentile National ranking from Newsweek magazine.
 
Dr. Anthony Indelicato became the 4th principal of Kempner on July 1st, 2010.

Greetings to all our parents, guardians and community members,
 
Our fall semester finished well and it is great to have our students back! Our new tardy process resulted in 66% less tardies this fall semester than the fall semester of 2010. Thank you for your help in ensuring our students arrive to school on time each day.
 
This year, there has been a change regarding how credit is awarded. Students will earn credit for classes based on their year average, not semester by semester. A student must earn a final course grade of 70 or above in the course to receive credit. For students taking an End of Course exam, the exam grade will count as 15% of the final course grade.
Our focus continues to center on student success with an emphasis on preparing our students for success on the upcoming state and national tests- TAKS, STAAR EOC (End of Course exams) and AP (Advanced Placement tests). The new state tests called STAAR End of Course exams (EOCs) are more rigorous than TAKS and are timed. All students who began the 9th grade of high school in the 2011-2012 school year will be taking 4 EOC tests- reading, math, science and social studies. All other students who started high school before the 2011-2012 school year will be taking the TAKS tests.
 
Some of our first testing dates include:
• March 7: TAKS ELA test for 10th and 11th graders
• March 26 and 27: EOC English I test for 9th graders (one day for Reading and one day for Writing)
• April 23-27: TAKS testing (10th and 11th graders)
• May 7-11: EOC testing (9th graders)
• May 7-18: AP testing
 
As always, thank you for your support- we have such a fantastic group of students here at Kempner that we enjoy supporting. Our goals for our students are that they come to school every day, make positive choices and give their best effort so we can help ensure that every student achieves their maximum success and graduates with bright options for their future after Kempner.
 
Sincerely,
 
Dr. Anthony Indelicato