Pasadena Memorial High School

The school, constructed on an 80-acre (320,000 m²) site, is designed around three main segments. The first segment includes the academic area, library and central administration area. The second segment contains the music and drama departments, auditorium, gymnasium and drill team. The third segment contains the dining hall and vocational laboratories. Two landscaped courtyards that surround the dining hall are used for outdoor dining, a sculpture court, and an art lab. Beyond its functional aspects, the courtyards provide a quiet environment for students and staff.

Since the opening of the school, district officials contemplated expanding the school. A week before the end of the first semester in 2006, the school opened a new wing adjacent to the mathematics hall that houses English teachers. The original plan for this wing was for it to be the Freshman Academy, where all freshmen would attend class. However, the plan was not used. PMHS also built a new field house exclusively for its football program right off the south parking lot.^[2] Recently, outdoor portable buildings, converted to classrooms, have been provided for overflow as the number of students has exceeded the school's capacity. Students are allotted one additional minute to reach these facilities, which was decreased from the original travel time of two minutes. A student petition was created that had more than five hundred signatures against the time decrease, but the administration denied the students appeal for an additional minute to travel to portable classes claiming that students should "walk faster" as quoted by Assistant Principal Kevin Blain. Plus an addition of security cameras were added in the hallways, cafeteria, and outside of building, along with police officers to ensure more safety due to a survey taken by parents and students who requested more security. A 2014 bond was introduced to expand the campus by adding an Early College High School (ECHS) wing to PMHS. It was proposed to help with the overcrowdedness since the school was originally only made to hold 2,000 students. The ECHS was officially opened at the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year.

The school serves portions of the city of Pasadena including Strawberry Glen and small sections of Houston around Ellington Field, including Genoa Township, Southway Gardens, and Gulf Palms.

For the 2016-2017 school year, Pasadena Independent School District has established a new standardized dress code for students. Shirts may be any color. Logos are allowed just as prints, pictures, stripes and plaids are allowed. Shirts should be appropriately sized with sleeves and free of inappropriate designs. Any solid colored pants are allowed, while shorts and shirts are not. However, pants must be free of designs and hemmed. Student ID badges are still required to be worn everyday while on campus.

Elementary schools: Burnett, Laura W. Bush, Fisher, Garfield, Genoa, Golden Acres, Jensen, Parks, South Houston, Teague, and Turner.

Middle schools: Lomax, Roberts, And Milstead.

Intermediate schools: Elmer G. Bondy, Park View, and V.W. Miller.

Academic Decathlon, Agriculture (FFA), Aquatics (swimming, diving, finswimming, open water), Art Club, Maverick Band, Choir, Orchestra Best Buddies, Broadcast Journalism (MAVision), Business Professionals of America (BPA), Cheerleading, Cosmetology, Drill Team (The Sidekicks), Fellowship FCCLA, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, French Club, Globetrotters, Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA), Hospitality and Management, International Thespian Society, Latin Club, National Honor Society (NHS), Newspaper (The Stampede), Ready Set Teach, Robotics, Sography, Spanish Club, Speech and Debate, Sports Medicine, Student Council, Student Library Advisory Committee (SLAC), Tennis, Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE), Touch Of Unity, Track, Yearbook (The Mav Yearbook), and Youth for Christ^[3]