It was the first site purchase and new build, in the 1950s, of the newly formed Fort Bend Independent School District, which held its first graduation in 1960.

[7] Circa the 1950s, the Kempner brothers rejected the idea of a new Sugar Land high school being named after them because they believed that students would prefer to have their school named after figures from previous wars who won honors and/or athletes; this was despite the fact that officials from the Texas educational agency had approved the naming, initially proposed by Sugar Land citizens.

[8] It is named after the eponymous John Foster Dulles, the American Secretary of State and diplomat who died the year the high school opened.

[9] FBISD racially desegregated in 1965; before that year, black high school students attended M.R.

[10] Dulles is home to the Math and Science Academy, which provides students with even more options to extend their studies in these areas.

Starting with the 2013–2014 school year, Biotechnology (Biology III) is offered as an honors course.

[16] Louis P. Rodgers Memorial Auditorium in Dulles High School was built in 1969.

Academic Decathlon State Championship Titles In 2013 32 students received national merit scholarships from the Math and Science sector of the school.

At the national competition, Dulles High School has reached the top 16 eight times.

:[26] Dulles, along with the other Fort Bend High Schools of Elkins and Clements, was subject to an act of cyber terrorism when a list titled Whimsical Girls of FBISD was posted on Facebook in April 2010.