Permian High School

Permian High School is a public high school located in Odessa, Texas and is part of the Ector County Independent School District. It was opened in 1959 as the second "white" high school in then-segregated Odessa, after Odessa High School. Several years later, when Odessa schools were desegregated, the black Ector High School was closed and its students divided between the remaining two high schools.

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High school - Odessa - Texas - Ector County Independent School District - 1959 - White - Desegregated - Black

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The story of the school's 1988 football team, the Permian Panthers, as they made a run towards the state championship, was the subject of the best-selling book Friday Night Lights, published in 1990. A movie based on the book was made in 2004. The team won the Texas state championship in the 5A classification (the state's largest) in 1965, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1989 and 1991 and was declared the unofficial national champion in 1972 and 1989.

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1988 - Football - Best-selling - Friday Night Lights - Movie

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As of 2005, the school principal is Dr. Steve Brown.

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As of 2005 - School principal

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The current Senior Class principal, Buddy Hale, was the Senior Principal for the 1988 class.

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