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Its current location, at 1930 Airport Boulevard, is on the South Campus of Houston Community College [9] began construction in 2014 [10] and opened in August 2016. [ 1 ] The school offers its students the opportunity to earn an associate degree while concurrently achieving a high school degree.
In 2006 the Houston Independent School District board considered moving the Kay On-Going Education Center, a special school for pregnant girls, to an unused area within DeBakey High School. DeBakey had around 30 unused classrooms, and district administrators argued that the Texas Medical Center location would be of use to pregnant students. [ 10 ]
The school opened in August, 2011 for the 6th and 9th grades, and would gradually become a middle and high school. It first opened in the E.O. Smith Education Center campus in the Fifth Ward. The district modeled the school off of the Chicago Urban Prep Academy in Chicago. The school has admission requirements. [1]
The largest school district serving the city limits is the Houston Independent School District (HISD), which serves a large majority of the area within the city limits. [17] A portion of west Houston falls under the Spring Branch and Alief independent school districts. Aldine takes parts of northern Houston.
Galena Park Independent School District. Woodland Acres Middle School [18] Cimarron Elementary School [19] Pyburn Elementary School [20] Woodland Acres Elementary School - Opened in the 1950s and occupied its current building in August 2018. As of 2019 it had about 400 students [21] Humble Independent School District (includes Kingwood)
Jones, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. Jones was named after Jesse Holman Jones . As of 2010 Empowerment South Early College High School is located on the Jones campus. [ 1 ]
It is notable for being the only high school in Spring Branch ISD to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma program at grades 11 and 12, an authorized Middle Years IB Program for grades 6–10, and has been recently authorized for the IB Career-related Programme. In 2014, Westchester was ranked in the top twenty-five high schools in Houston.
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas, and the eighth-largest in the United States. [3] Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and insular municipalities in addition to some unincorporated areas .