In its first year, an integrated team from West Brook under the former Hebert coach, Alexander Durley, won the state 5A football championship.

[5][7] Durley died of cancer after two seasons as head football coach of the Bruins, and the school's former stadium was named Alex Durley Stadium in his honor.

"Butch" Thomas Educational Support Center, together with other city high schools.

[8] On March 29, 2006, the varsity girls' soccer team was traveling to a road game in Humble when their charter bus overturned on the highway outside Devers.

The team and their parents subsequently helped pass what became known as Ashley and Alicia's Law, a state law requiring seat belts on all school buses purchased on or after September 1, 2010, and on all charter buses purchased on or after September 1, 2011.