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In previous eras Galveston ISD house or residential area was assigned to an elementary school and a middle school. In Port Bolivar, the houses and residential areas are zoned to a K-8 center. All high school students in Galveston ISD were zoned to attend Ball High School. [6] Galveston College serves the catchment area of Galveston ISD. [7]
Circa 2003 some Bolivar Peninsula residents in the Galveston Independent School District (GISD) portion who were dissatisfied with the Crenshaw School, the then-two-campus GISD K-8 school on the peninsula, sent their children to High Island schools. [1] Crenshaw was rebuilt as a single campus in 2005. [2]
High Island School or High Island High School is a public school serving students grades PK–12 located in the High Island community of Galveston County, Texas, United States. It is the only school in the High Island Independent School District. [4] Approximately 30 miles from the City of Galveston, it is zoned within the Bolivar Peninsula.
The tax base of the Galveston ISD grew by 13% in 2005 while Galveston ISD lost many district-zoned non-Hurricane Katrina evacuee students. [11] San Jacinto Elementary School closed in 2006. [12] Alamo Elementary School, which opened in 1935 and received renovations in 1980 and 1986, closed in 2007.
Galveston College is led by a president who answers to the Galveston Community College District Board of Regents whose nine members are publicly elected. The president is currently W. Myles Shelton. In the late 1990s interest was shown in creating an endowment that would encourage high school graduates in the community to attend college.
This meant an exodus of children from the Galveston ISD and into other school districts. If Hurricane Katrina evacuees and out-of-district students are excluded, Galveston ISD lost 12% of its students between the 2002-2003 school year and the 2006-2007 school year; Ball High School is affected as it is the only public high school in Galveston. [5]
Dickinson Independent School District is a school district based in Dickinson, Texas, United States in Greater Houston. DISD serves most of the city of Dickinson as well as portions of the cities of La Marque , League City , and Texas City and some houses in unincorporated Galveston County (including most of Bacliff and all of San Leon ).
Central High School was a senior high school for African-American students in Galveston, Texas.It was a part of the Galveston Independent School District (GISD).. Lorraine Smith Tigner, quoted in the Galveston County Daily News, stated that Central, established as the Central School in 1885, was the first Texas school for black people.