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The campus previously housed an elementary school, and was re-opened as a middle school because area parents thought Revere Middle School was too far away. [78] Albert Thomas Middle School (Houston) Louie Welch Middle School (Houston) Serves sections of Fondren Southwest and Missouri City [79] [80] Welch's campus was built for about 1,133 students.
Park Place opened in 1915, as a part of the City of Park Place. The land was donated by the Park Place Development Company. The city government renovated the school in 1925, and HISD annexed the school in 1927. [124] The original campus was built to house 255 children. In 1992 it had 944 students.
Baker Montessori School serves as the neighborhood elementary school for a section of Neartown, [14] [15] including the Cherryhurst main and addition subdivisions, [16] [17] a portion of the original Montrose subdivision, [18] a portion of Hyde Park, [19] Mandell Place, Park, Vermont Commons, WAMM, and Winlow Place, as well as most of Audubon Place and portions of Avondale, Lancaster Place ...
On February 12, 2016, the HISD board voted to require Lanier to change its name again to purge HISD of school names based on Confederate figures, even though Lanier's students approved of keeping the school's name. [7] Former teacher Jim Henley stated that Lanier was known as a creative artist and that he was not known as a Confederate soldier. [8]
Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School is a primary school located at 5100 Hazard Street in Houston, Texas, United States.A part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD), the school, which was built during the 1920s, [2] is located in the Chevy Chase subdivision of the Boulevard Oaks neighborhood west of Rice University. [3]
Houston ISD grants school bus transportation to any Houston ISD resident attending his or her zoned school or attending a magnet program who lives 2 miles (3.2 km) or more away from the campus (as measured by the nearest public roads) or must cross treacherous obstacles in order to reach the campus. Certain special education students are also ...
The Houston Independent School District takeover is a 2023 takeover of the state's largest school district by the Texas Education Agency, replacing the superintendent and elected board of trustees with a board of managers and a new superintendent appointed by the Texas commissioner of education.
In 2020, Yates became the fifth HISD high school to become an International Baccalaureate school. [46] Yates has HISD's magnet program for communications: broadcast TV, radio, print, and photography. Yates also houses a maritime studies magnet program. Prior to 2015, the school allowed students who missed too many classes to pass a course but ...