J. M. Hanks High School

• Name — J. M. Hanks High School • Motto — It's a great day to be a Knight • Type — Public, Secondary • Principal — Daniel Gutierrez • District — Ysleta Independent School District • Campus Type — Urban • Enrollment — 1,495 (2020–21) • Ratio — 13.95 • Staff — 107.15 (FTE) • Grades — 9-12 • Yearbook — The Shield • Mascot — Silver Knight • Colors — Silver, black, and red • Athletic Conference — 5A-D1 • Location — 2001 Lee Trevino El Paso, TX • Country — USA • Website — http: www.yisd.net/hanks J. M. Hanks High School, commonly referred to as Hanks High School, is one of seven public secondary schools in Ysleta Independent School District, which encompasses much of east El Paso, Texas. Hanks' primary feeder school is J.M. Hanks Middle School. Additionally, many students from nearby Eastwood Middle School go on to attend Hanks High School.

J.M. Hanks High School is named in honor of former Ysleta superintendent Jesse Mack Hanks, who retained the position for a full fifty years from approximately 1939 until his death in 1989. For his extended service to the district, Hanks was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from New Mexico State University in nearby Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1965 and was named superintendent emeritus by Ysleta. The school was opened in 1978 to accommodate El Paso's eastward expansion and to ease overcrowding at nearby Eastwood High School, which lies 2.5 miles to the west of Hanks. The school initially enrolled seventh, eighth and ninth graders comprising the classes that would graduate in 1982, 1983 and 1984. The class of 1985 was added for the 1979–80 school year as those students became seventh-graders. As those four classes "moved up" each year, the student body thus remained virtually intact until Hanks reached standard high school set of grades 9-12 for the 1981–82 school year. Hanks' enrollment had reached 1,800 by 1980, with the inaugural class graduating 372 students in May 1982.

• Baseball • Boys Basketball • Boys Soccer • Boys Track • Boys Wrestling • Cheerleading • Football • Girls Basketball • Girls Soccer • Girls Track • Golf • Softball • Swimming • Tennis • Volleyball

• AVID • Academic Decathlon • Art Club • Band & Flags- Silver Knights Marching Band • Business Professionals of America • Chess • Choir • Citizen Bee • Close Up • Crime Stoppers • DECA • Destination Imagination • Drama • Eco Club • Exeter • Future Business Leaders of America • Future Career Consumer Leaders of America • Future Homemakers of America • Guitar Club • Home Economics Related Occupations • High Q • Interact • Intramurals • Knight Force • Knight Players • KnightVision News • Knights for Christ • Mariachi • Math Club • Mock Trial • Momentum • National Honor Society • Orchestra • Pure Movement • FRC Robotics • Lego Robotics • ROTC • Scriptoria • Secular Student Alliance • Shield Yearbook • Silhouettes Dance Team • Social Studies Club • Speech & Debate • Student Council • Teen Volunteer Corps • Winter Color Guard • Young Scholars' Bowl

• Band, 1986 UIL Wind Ensemble State Champion • Girls Wrestling, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 (6 straight State Championships) • Boys Golf, 1995

• Gabe Camarillo, United States Under Secretary of the Army • Ara Celi, Actress • Mark Grudzielanek, Professional Baseball Player • Ginger Kerrick, American physicist and first Hispanic female NASA Flight Director at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center • Bruce Ruffin, Major League Baseball Pitcher • Ryan Stout, Comedian • Ryan Piers Williams, Filmmaker • Alan Zinter, Professional Baseball Player • Gigi Causey, Production manager, Oscar nominee for best short film • Danny Perez, Professional Baseball Player • Leon Schydlower, U.S. Federal Judge, Western District of Texas