San Antonio High School

In November 2009 the district announced that sports at Fox Tech would end as it became a magnet school, and the final Chili Bowl against Lanier, a west side vocational school, went to Lanier, 30 to 14. Afterward both teams gathered at midfield and chanted the word brothers. Football ended after the 2009-10 season, other sports two years later. Alumni had taken up the game's nickname, which carried a sting, and made it their own. In 2017 a charter school, CAST Tech, opened in the renovated freshman buildings.

What the plaque says

San Antonio High School The first public secondary school in the city, San Antonio High School opened in September 1879 with one teacher, F.M. Halbedl. Classes were initially held in the Fireman's Hall on Broadway. Following several moves, a school building was constructed at this site in 1882 on land owned by the city. The first graduates, three girls, received their diplomas in February of that year. In 1917 the name was changed to Main Avenue High School because of the projected district growth and the addition of new secondary schools. Reflecting district emphasis on vocational training, it became the San Antonio Vocational and Technical High School in 1932. The name was changed in 1961 to honor Louis W. Fox (d. 1978) who served as principal, 1934-1942. A pioneer in Texas vocational education programs, Fox helped develop the technical training curriculum for the school and the district. This historic school has one of the three oldest student government organizations in the state and an alumni association formed in 1892. An annual football game against Lanier High School, called the "Chili Bowl", has been held since 1940. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spanish Governor's Palace — 0.6 mi
  The last visible piece of the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar: a presidio captain's house with a 1749 keystone, a century as shops and saloons, and a romantic 1930 restoration.
• San Fernando Cathedral — 0.6 mi
  The Canary Islanders' parish church on Main Plaza, where Bowie married and Santa Anna raised a red flag, rebuilt in Gothic Revival around the walls of the 1750s church.
• The Alamo — 0.7 mi
  Mission San Antonio de Valero before it was a fort: a church its builders never finished, a thirteen-day siege in 1836, and the Army gable of 1850-52 that became its emblem.
• Casa Navarro State Historic Site — 0.7 mi
  The adobe and caliche-block home of José Antonio Navarro, a native-born signer of the 1836 declaration, and the last remnant of the Tejano neighborhood called Laredito.

More markers nearby

• Central Christian Church — steps away
• Site of Rincon/Douglass School — 0.2 mi
• San Pedro Creek — 0.2 mi
• Italian American Community in San Antonio — 0.3 mi