PORT ISABEL TARPONS. Port Isabel High School, Home of the Mighty Tarpons.also abbreviated as PIHS, is a public high school located in Port Isabel, Texas (USA).Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had a longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. "Accelerate".
"We were on our way to the beach at South Padre Island and stopped here to check it out."
"We climbed all 74 steps to the very top and made it back down again." It is the sole high school in the Point Isabel Independent School District.
Built in 1926 as the Point Isabel Yacht Club, its early years were associated with famed citrus grower John Shary. Located on the Intracoastal Waterway,The City of Port Isabel is working to acquire the building and seeks to adapt it for office and other uses.
Port Isabel, Texas is one of the most visited coastal Towns in all of Texas. If your going to South Padre you enter the Queen Isabella Causeway from Port Isabel which crosses Laguna Madre. It's home to the only townsquare with a lighthouse.