Brackenridge High School is a public high school located in central San Antonio, Texas, and classified as a 5A school by the University Interscholastic League (UIL).

[2] The school was founded in 1917 on the city's south side along the San Antonio River near the King William neighborhood.

[3] That year, the school was renamed in honor of Phillis Wheatley, the first published African-American poet, a woman taken in childhood from West Africa, enslaved and taken to Boston, and eventually freed.

In 1988, bowing to some alumni concerns, the school's original name was restored.

[4] The Brackenridge Mighty Eagles compete in the following sports:[5]