:Clements High School

Clements was occupied in 1983,"[http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us/about/history.cfm FBISD History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907032420/http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us/about/history.cfm|date=September 7, 2008}}." Fort Bend Independent School District. Retrieved on April 4, 2010. making it FBISD's third comprehensive high school.{{cite news|author=Solomon, Jerome|url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1997_1433312|title=FOOTBALL 1997/HIGH SCHOOLS/FORT BEND BONANZA/Phillips, Dulles in hunt to add to town's memories|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=1997-08-28|page=Special 33|access-date=December 31, 2011|quote=It remained the lone high school in the area until Willowridge opened in 1979[...]Clements (1983),[...]|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120709123726/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1997_1433312|archive-date=July 9, 2012}}

The school was named after William P. Clements.

In 2023, as part of a $1.26 billion bond package by Fort Bend ISD, a proposition was made calling for the construction of a new $222 million rebuild of Clements on the current site's athletic facilities. The move was made due to long-standing foundation issues; large parts of the school are sinking or being raised up, with cracks becoming so wide that they could be used to pass books between classrooms. The district argued that the budgetary and time-related costs for retaining the current building would far exceeded the costs for simply constructing another building.{{Cite web |last=Varma |first=Juhi |date=2023-04-20 |title=Fort Bend ISD residents question $1.26B bond package's plan to rebuild, not repair Clements High School |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/fort-bend/article/fort-bend-isd-residents-question-bond-plan-17891743.php |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=Houston Chronicle |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=April 13, 2023 |title=Here's one thing Fort Bend ISD is proposing in its massive $1.2B bond package |url=https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/fort-bend-isd-bond/285-2147dc4c-b64d-448a-b18f-7fff1ee8221b |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=khou.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Varma |first=Juhi |date=2023-04-03 |title=Fort Bend ISD's $1.26B bond proposal is its biggest ever, includes Clements High School rebuild |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/fort-bend/article/fort-bend-isd-bond-billion-17872113.php |access-date=2023-04-30 |website=Houston Chronicle |language=en-US}} The proposal has passed, and the rebuild is currently underway.{{Cite web |title=Clements High School celebrates 40 years of memories! |url=https://fbindependent.com/clements-high-school-celebrates-years-of-memories-p15929-105.htm |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=fbindependent.com}}

In 2014, Clements was ranked number 10 on the Best Math and Science High Schools in the Houston-Area list,{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} and was listed as number 3 on the Best High Schools in the Houston-Area list.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} In 2024, Clements was ranked number 18 on the Best High Schools in the Houston-Area list,{{Cite news |title=Best High Schools in the Houston, TX Area |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/texas/rankings/houston-tx-26420 |work=U.S. News}} The average 2019 SAT scores were{{cite web |url=http://www.fortbendisd.com/misc/2011%20College%20Readiness%20Report.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.fortbendisd.com |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403185851/http://www.fortbendisd.com/misc/2011%20College%20Readiness%20Report.pdf |archive-date=3 April 2012 |url-status=dead}} Math 690 and Verbal 660. The average 2019 ACT score was a 30.{{Cite web|url=https://www.greatschools.org/texas/sugar-land/2563-Clements-High-School/|title=Explore Clements High School in Sugar Land, TX|website=GreatSchools.org|access-date=2018-10-12}} The average passing rate on AP exams was 92% in 2019. Clements is often recognized as one of the best high schools in the state of Texas, and has been ranked "Exemplary" by the Texas Education Agency for over 15 years.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}

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In the 2010–2011 academic school year, Clements High School hosted the annual Texas French Symposium competition51^e Texas French Symposium guide.

The Clements men's soccer team was the 5A Texas state championship team in 2014, led by Todd Ericson.

Clements participated in the 2016 National Science Bowl, finishing in third place with an all-freshman team.

As of 2017, Clements DECA was the largest DECA Chapter in Texas by membership{{Cite web |url=https://www.decadirect.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/largest-chapters.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-10-12 |archive-date=2018-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013014434/https://www.decadirect.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/largest-chapters.pdf |url-status=dead }} and has been{{when|date=December 2023}} one of the top 10 largest in the world for five years.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Clements has the largest number of degrees in the National Speech and Debate Association East Texas District.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} The school has gotten first at the Texas Forensic Association State Tournament in Public Forum Debate in 2009, in Congressional Debate in 2013, and in Public Forum Debate in 2015. In 2016,{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

The following elementary schools{{cite web |url=http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us/cmf/var/tidbits/Tidbits_parentlinks_20070810_1513.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.fortbend.k12.tx.us |access-date=30 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430041925/http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us/cmf/var/tidbits/Tidbits_parentlinks_20070810_1513.pdf |archive-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead}} feed into Clements:{{cite web |url=http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us/cmf/var/tidbits/Tidbits_parentlinks_20070810_1517.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.fortbend.k12.tx.us |access-date=30 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430041915/http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us/cmf/var/tidbits/Tidbits_parentlinks_20070810_1517.pdf |archive-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead}}

• Colony Bend
• Austin Parkway (partial)
• Colony Meadows
• Commonwealth (partial)
• Settlers Way (partial)
• Cornerstone

The following middle schools{{cite web |url=http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us/cmf/var/tidbits/Tidbits_parentlinks_20070810_1515.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.fortbend.k12.tx.us |access-date=30 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430041922/http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us/cmf/var/tidbits/Tidbits_parentlinks_20070810_1515.pdf |archive-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead}} feed into Clements:

• Fort Settlement Middle School (partial)(FSMS)
• First Colony Middle School (partial)(FCMS)
• Sartartia Middle School (partial)(SMS)

As of 2023–2023:

• American Indian/Alaskan Native 0.2%
• Asian 54.6%
• Black 7.5%
• Hispanic or Latino 13.0%
• Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0%
• White 20.4%
• 2 or more races 4.4%

In 2007, one day following the Virginia Tech shooting, the school received a phone call from a parent who complained that her child was playing a PC game involving shooting and killing people in an animated map of the school. Following the call, school officials promptly discovered the website where a 17-year-old alumni was distributing the map as a mod for Counter-Strike. Police searched his home under consent from his mother. They found nothing illegal, but confiscated five decorative swords and ordered the boy to erase the game and maps from his computer. Although he was not charged for the incident, he was subsequently transferred to an alternative education center. The incident caused a rift within the districts board of trustees, with some suggesting that the district's reaction was overwrought. It also angered the local Chinese-American community, to which the boy and his family belonged.{{Cite web |title=Student transferred for making Counter-strike map based on school |url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/student-transferred-for-making-counter-strike-map-based-on-school/1100-6235913/ |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=GameSpot |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Modine |first=Austin |title=Student expelled for high school Counter-Strike map |url=https://www.theregister.com/2007/05/03/student_counterstrike_map_texasschool/ |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=www.theregister.com |language=en}}

Clements, along with the other Fort Bend High Schools of Elkins and Dulles, was subject to an act of cyberterrorism when a list titled Whimsical Girls of FBISD was posted on Facebook in April 2010."[http://www.khou.com/news/local/Fort-Bend-Cyberbullies-Terrorize-dozens-of-young-girls-90431169.html Cyber-bullies terrorize dozens of Fort Bend County girls] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615031837/http://www.khou.com/news/local/Fort-Bend-Cyberbullies-Terrorize-dozens-of-young-girls-90431169.html |date=2010-06-15 }}." KHOU, Houston, Texas. Retrieved on June 7, 2011. The list named several female students from the three high schools with graphic detail of promiscuous acts that the girls performed, locations of the acts, as well as severe name calling. While some described this as tattle-taling, others argued that the list was a direct form of verbal assault and demanded the expulsion of the offender who posted the list.

On May 13, 2011, 16 students at Clements broke into the school. The group was attempting to move chairs set in place for AP testing from the gym to the roof of the school as a senior prank.{{Cite web |last=Office |first=From the Fort Bend County Sheriff's |date=2013-06-25 |title=Former Clements student charged for 2011 senior prank |url=https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/fortbend/news/article/Former-Clements-student-charged-for-2011-senior-9536735.php |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=Chron |language=en-US}} The security alarm tripped during this and police were promptly dispatched, where they saw the group of men running away. They were able to detain some of them and decipher what had occurred. Three students - Brian Warshauer (who was also charged with possession of a controlled substance),{{Cite web |last=ABC13 |title=Three teens arrested for allegedly breaking into Clements High School in Sugar Land {{!}} ABC13 Houston {{!}} abc13.com |url=https://abc13.com/archive/8149435/ |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=ABC13 Houston |language=en}} Ali Lilani, and Taylor Ashford - were charged with burglary, evading arrest, and engaging in organized criminal activity. The charges were eventually reduced to just criminal trespassing.{{Cite web |title=11 Clements High School students punished for breaking into school |url=https://www.khou.com/article/news/11-clements-high-school-students-punished-for-breaking-into-school/285-341104808 |access-date=2023-05-05 |website=khou.com |date=19 July 2011 |language=en-US}} One of the students, Brian Yu, managed to flee but turned himself in the following day. He was sentenced to six years probation and 24 hours of community service, among other conditions, after a one-day trial in June 2013. 12 other students also turned themselves in, with 11 of them agreeing plea in July 2011 to be on probation. Additionally, the 11 students were forced to walk around Clements High School with signs around their neck reading "What I did was a crime not a prank," for four hours. Many parents and students believed the punishment to be too excessive.

On October 15, 2016, Brian Yuen, a 17-year-old member of the school's aquatics team, experienced a major medical emergency while competing at the Don Cook Natatorium. Staff performed CPR until paramedics arrived. He died shortly after being transported to the hospital. A vigil for him was attended by hundreds of family members, friends, and local community members. A GoFundMe established by his brother Charles raised $30,000 in funeral and medical expenses. A moment of silence was held at a football game between Ridge Point and Dulles High Schools that day, with cheerleaders and attendees wearing blue, Yuen's favorite color.{{Cite web |title=Clements High School student dies after medical emergency during swim meet |url=https://abc13.com/high-school-medical-emergency-swim-meet-clements/1556968/ |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=ABC13 Houston |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Clements High School student dies after competing in swim meet |url=https://www.khou.com/article/news/clements-high-school-student-dies-after-competing-in-swim-meet/285-336416524 |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=khou.com |date=15 October 2016 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Ellis |first=Lindsay |date=2016-10-17 |title=Family, friends remember Clements senior who died at swim meet |url=https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Family-friends-remember-Clements-senior-who-died-9975176.php |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=Houston Chronicle |language=en-US}}

On December 11, 2023, the principal of Clements High School, Brian Shillingburg, was arrested on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute/other payor. He was caught as part of a sting operation entitled "Operation Naughty List" by the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office.{{Cite web |last=Zamora-Nipper |first=Briana |date=2023-12-12 |title='Operation Naughty List': Clements High School principal arrested in undercover prostitution sting |url=https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/12/12/clements-high-school-principal-charged-with-soliciting-prostitute/ |access-date=2023-12-13 |website=KPRC |language=en}} He was later indicted by the grand jury.{{Cite web |title=Principal Indictment hosted at ImgBB |url=https://ibb.co/WfmFk2w |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240410010819/https://ibb.co/WfmFk2w |url-status=usurped |archive-date=April 10, 2024 |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=ImgBB |language=en}}

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