William Adams High School is a defunct high school in Alice, Texas

Alice, Texas

At the 2000 census, there were 19,010 people, 6,400 households and 4,915 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,597.4 per square mile . There were 6,998 housing units at an average density of 588.0 per square mile...

. It is now William Adams Middle School serving students in the grades of 7 and 8. High school students of Alice have been attending Alice High School

Alice High School

Alice High School serves the students of Alice, Texas and surrounding communities in Jim Wells County.- History :The City of Alice originated from the defunct community of Collins, which was located three miles east. Around 1880 the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway attempted to build a line...

 as of 1970. After a long three year process, the William Adams Middle School building was torn down and replaced with a brand new building in 2009.

Notable alumni

• Robert Curl
  Robert Curl
  Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. the son of a Methodist Minister is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas and is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University....
  
   - 1996 Nobel Prize Winner and a chemistry professor at Rice University
  Rice University
  William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
  
  
• Octavio Figueroa, Jr.
  Octavio Figueroa, Jr.
  Octavio Figueroa Jr. is a former mayor of the city of Alice, Texas. Señor Figueroa was elected mayor pro-tem of the City of Alice in 1979 and was elected as mayor in 1981. He served for 14 years and lost a bid for re-election, but returned two years later to serve another term...
  
   - graduated 1961 - former mayor of Alice and a teacher for the middle school for many years
• J. Frank Dobie
  J. Frank Dobie
  James Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the days of the open range...
  
   - author
• Marv Brown
  Marv Brown
  Marvin Clifford Brown is a former American football halfback in the National Football League with the Detroit Lions, NFL champions of that year. He attended high school in Waco, Texas and Alice, Texas. He was drafted in the 25th round by Detroit in 1953.-Recources:...
  
  - NFL player in 1957 attended the school