John H. Reagan High School

Reagan High School opened in 1965 and is named for John Henninger Reagan, a 19th century U.S. Senator from Texas. For the first two decades of its existence, Austin Reagan hosted a highly successful football program. Under coaches Travis Raven, Carroll Lundin and Wally Freytag, the Reagan Raiders formed a dynasty in Texas high school football from 1967 to 1994. In 1967, 1968 and 1970 the Raiders won Texas state championships as well as being declared national champions by then-US President Richard M. Nixon in 1970. Since the mid-80's, however, the downturn in the economic levels of the neighborhoods that feed students into Reagan has resulted in a drop in athletic performance records in all sports.