[2] The school, named after Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas", is located in the East End.

The Port of Houston Maritime Academy was scheduled to come to Austin High School in August 2009.

The three-story building was designed for every room to have windows for ventilation in Houston's humid climate.

Among other notable architectural features, Austin had a swimming pool in the basement below the gymnasium.

The following day the two discussed the show during an American history class; Austin High School had a lack of textbooks and scheduling conflicts.

One week later, on Friday October 27, HISD superintendent Joan Raymond announced that Urbina would be reassigned to administrative duties.

Macario Garcia, a spokesperson for the students, said that he believed that school officials may "review everything but are not going to take immediate action.

Due to the overcrowding, by that month Houston ISD trustees approved a plan to open a new high school in 1995 instead of in 1997.

[11] In 1992 superintendent Frank Petruzielo asked Jose Treviño to become the principal of Austin High.

In 2010, the Sonic Boom was selected out of more than 80 applicants nationwide to compete in the Home Depot Center Battle of the Bands, sponsored by Vh1 Save the Music Foundation.

[citation needed] In 2007, a Johns Hopkins University study commissioned by the Associated Press included Austin in a "dropout factory" list of 42 Houston-area high schools; a "dropout factory" school is where at least 40% of the entering freshman class does not make it to their senior year.

[24] This created the large student population decrease as gentrification made the surrounding area more expensive.

That year a counselor estimated that 250 of them had permission to leave Austin High during the school day, and many of those students had outside jobs.

[citation needed] The school is ranked 72 by U.S News in the state due to its offered AP courses and supportive staff.

[citation needed] Dr. Ronald McIntire and Dr. Mark Ginsburg developed Austin's magnet program, the High School for Teaching Professions.

[33] In 1984 Swartz reported that in the magnet school many students chose not to take liberal arts electives but instead those related to vocational studies, such as speech class.