Mirabeau B. Lamar Senior High School is a secondary school located at 3325 Westheimer Road in Houston, Texas, United States, with a zip code of 77098. Lamar High School, which serves grades 9 through 12, is part of the Houston Independent School District.Lamar High School, which is located in the Upper Kirby district, primarily serves the Houston neighborhood of River Oaks and the incorporated city of West University Place (for an exhaustive list of neighborhoods, see "Neighborhoods served by Lamar".)Lamar has a business magnet program offering a wide array of business management courses, as well as cooperation with the Houston business community to provide internships and university scholarships.Lamar has one of two high school-level IB Diploma programs in the Houston Independent School District, and therefore is one of HISD's six IB World Schools . Lamar High School consistently has the greatest number of students who graduate with the IB Diploma in Texas . Lamar offers many International Baccalaureate Diploma classes, including several foreign languages: Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Spanish, and Russian. In 2006, 86 students were awarded the IB Diploma, and one third of the school population consisted of candidates for the IB Diploma. Lamar has the largest IB Diploma program in North America . Lamar also hosts summer school for HISD.The school handles grades nine through twelve. Lamar High School has neighborhood, Advanced Placement, and IB Diploma Programme (International Baccalaureate) programs. Lamar is annually one of the top schools in Texas and the United States, with some of the highest numbers of National Merit Scholars and Semifinalists. Lamar was ranked as 675th , 973rd , and 605th in Newsweek's 2005, 2006, and 2007 lists, respectively, of the top high schools in the United States. Many students in other parts of Houston ISD transfer to Lamar to escape home schools that do not have a good academic performance, causing the attendance figures of those schools to suffer. The school's mascot for its sports teams is the "Redskins" (see "Sports" section).There is a joke in the River Oaks community that states that River Oaks Boulevard is the only street with a country club at both ends. One is the River Oaks Country Club, and the "other" is Lamar High School. .The school is seen in the movie Rushmore . In Rushmore the campus is used as the setting for Grover Cleveland High School.The school was also featured in the Chuck Norris film: Sidekicks.