students dress up in their native culture and give cultural performances to the entire school. talent show – a talent show that the entire school attends. field day – a full day event in march that has fun activities for students, food, competitions among classes in many sports, and ultimately a class spirit performance. at the end of the festivities, one of the four classes will be the champions, based on how many events (mostly competitive sports) they win. fall festival- school-wide event in which the grade levels compete with each other for the highest number of points throughout different activities. students choose representatives to participate in the events. these points carry over to field day, when a class is crowned the winner. feeder patterns debakey has no feeder patterns since it is a magnet school, so no students are zoned to it. debakey accepts children from many houston isd middle schools. some students who are enrolled in private schools in the 8th grade choose to go to debakey for high school. life after high school most debakey students matriculate to university of houston or university of texas at austin after graduation. a unique program specifically for debakey graduates known as the uh-baylor program allows around 10 debakey students to be guaranteed admission to the baylor college of medicine after four years of classes at the university of houston. a considerable amount attend private texas schools such as trinity university, baylor university, university of st. thomas, and houston baptist university, as well as out of state colleges such as university of california at berkeley, howard university, university of michigan, tulane university, and case western university. debakey graduates are well-represented in the nation's leading national universities such as rice university, stanford university, university of chicago, university of notre dame, university of pennsylvania, harvard university, princeton university, and massachusetts institute of technology and in premiere liberal arts colleges, including amherst college, pomona college, swarthmore college, wellesley college.