Flower Mound High School (FMHS) is part of Lewisville Independent School District and is located in Flower Mound, Texas, United States. The school rests on of land that was purchased in 1993. FMHS was the second high school built in Flower Mound, after Edward S. Marcus High School. With the expansion of the town in the 1980s and 1990s, a second high school was built to accommodate the growth. FMHS has been called one of the top 10 best public high schools in the Dallas area and consistently receives an "Exemplary" (highest) rating from the Texas Education Agency. The school's fight song is the Michigan Wolverines' fight song, "The Victors".
History
Flower Mound High School was built to relieve pressure from Edward S. Marcus High School and Lewisville High School. Plans were set for a campus, including two gymnasiums, a cafetorium, an auditorium, a band hall, a football field, tennis courts, and three parking lots. To accommodate additional students, a previously unplanned wing containing 45 additional classrooms was completed in time for the 2000–2001 school year.
108 staff members, led by principal Norman Reuther, taught the first student body of 986 freshman and sophomores. The school was recognized as exemplary in the charter year. In the school's second year, varsity sports were introduced and the student body grew to include grades nine through eleven.
In 2000, Kansas State University threatened legal action against FMHS for an alleged copyright violation on the Jaguar logo. Rather than pay a licensing fee to KSU, as some schools in Texas were then doing, Reuther ordered a re-design of the logo, to avoid the 8% merchandise commission.
In August 2001, Reuther welcomed the school's first senior class; the student body grew to over 2,400 students.
Reuther left FMHS at the end of the 2003 school year. Assistant principal Jack Clark subsequently took over the position of principal. Under his leadership, the school's enrollment continued to grow (see graph, right). In the spring of 2007, Clark announced his retirement. Paul Moon was selected to head the school.
In 2007, FMHS graduates earned over ten million dollars in scholarships, exceeding $14,000 per person. The 2008 graduating class accumulated approximately $15,500,000 in scholarship money, exceeding an average of $22,000 per graduate.
In January 2008, Moon announced that FMHS would undergo an expansion adding a third gymnasium and a second band room, to be completed in May 2009.
In spring 2008, LISD began random drug testing of all high school students in extracurricular and co-curricular groups; 75 weekly random students from FMHS were tested that spring and 48 students per week were tested for the 2008–09 school year.
In May 2011, it was announced that Paul Moon would retire and pass the leadership to Sonya Lail.
In 2013, the school began a project to build a new campus that would be for 9th graders only. The class of 2018 was the first class to use the new freshman center.
In 2019, it was announced that Lail would retire and pass the leadership to Chad Russell.
Athletics
Flower Mound High School is a 6A school, competing as part of the University Interscholastic League in District 6-6A, the classification for schools with the largest enrollment. Its main rival is Marcus High School, the school FMHS plays against annually in the Mound Showdown. Other rivals include Lewisville High School and Hebron High School. The main sports the Jaguars compete in are American football, boys' and girls' soccer, boys' and girls' basketball, baseball, cross country, golf, ice hockey (although not school-sponsored), softball, tennis, swimming, track, volleyball, bowling, water polo (also not school-sponsored), and wrestling. In the 2006–2007 school year, every athletic team at the school advanced to playoffs, with several winning the district title.
The 2008 baseball team advanced to the Class 5A Regional Finals in 2008, losing to Southlake Carroll. In spring 2014, the baseball team won the state 5A title.
In 2008 boys' basketball, the Jaguars advanced to the regional quarterfinals, the furthest they had ever advanced, from a last-second shot by Brad Renz, before losing to Colleyville Heritage High School.
In 2008, the school's male swim team placed second at the UIL Class 5A State Swimming and Diving Championships held in Austin, the highest finish ever for any LISD school. In 2008, the softball team advanced to the regional semi-finals; no Flower Mound team had done this before. They lost to Weatherford HS.
The Flower Mound wrestling team was the UIL state runner-up for two years in a row in 2010 and 2011.