Clear Lake High School opened in 1972 to alleviate overcrowding at what was then the district's only high school,
Clear Creek High School with the first class graduating in 1973. The current campus has a field house, and athletic fields, all across the street from the
University of Houston–Clear Lake. The ninth grade annex was first added to the Clear Lake High School campus in 1978. Later, the 9th grade center was used as Space Center Intermediate School but returned to a 9th grade center when SCIS moved to a newly built campus for the 1999–2000 school year. When Clear Lake was rebuilt the district began to use the ninth grade annex has a building for Robotics, the Gifted and Talented Program and more. In 1984 psychologists enacted anti-suicide seminars at Clear Lake HS after a wave of suicides of students in CCISD, which took place outside of school campuses. For the 1986–87 school year Clear Lake High School became a
National Blue Ribbon School. Clear Lake High School is currently the largest school in Texas with a
Texas Education Agency (TEA) ranking of Recognized. The school discovered large-scale cheating in an English IV final examination in 2012. The school invalidated all English IV final exam results, allowing students who did not cheat to have a final grade without the final or to take the final again. The students who cheated received scores of zero.
Suicides in 1984 In the 1980s, the high school was perhaps most known for the suicides that occurred in 1984. Six teenagers committed suicide, with five of them doing so in the community of Clear Lake, and with the final one being a
Clear Creek High School student.
The New York Times reported that there were rumors of a suicide pact that included up to thirty students but that this story turned out to be "a lark." Psychologists were sent to the school to deal with any residual stress that resulted from these events. B. Comstock, the author of "Youth Suicide Cluster: A Community Response" in
Newslink, argued that the "wide press coverage" and the "abundance of volunteers eager to help but not organized to do anything" were problematic. He stated that there was a lot of panic and confusion in the Clear Lake community and that the residents of the area were not happy with the media presence. ==Demographics==