Photos: The Berry Center is a big high school football stadium, even by Texas standards

That cliche about everything being bigger in Texas rings true often enough when it comes to high school football that fans generally expect the biggest of the big to be situated within the borders of the Lone Star State.

Of course, the field is the same size everywhere that plays 11-man football, whether it be rural Maine or downtown Los Angeles. So Texas does other things to distinguish itself, and that almost always means bigger stands and bigger scoreboards.

The folks in Cypress, Texas went big in a whole other way. They combined the local schools' shared stadium with a hulking complex that features just about everything that would be visited by large numbers of people.

Meet the Richard E. Barry Educational Support Center. Aside from the 11,000 seats at the football field, there's an arena (8,300 fixed seats), conference center (15,333 square feet), theater (456 seats) and 4,000 parking spots. And there's a sizable kitchen, too, on the 65-acre site that officially opened in 2006.

View the entire Berry Center photo gallery by MaxPreps photographer John Godwin



There are 10 schools in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, so football games are split between the Berry Center and Pridgeon Field, which preceded the gem of Cypress.

But enough facts. Check out the stadium that the following schools share: Cy-Fair, Jersey Village, Cypress Ranch, Cypress Woods, Langham Creek, Cypress Creek, Cypress Falls, Cypress Springs, Cy-Ridge and Cypress Lakes.

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