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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]
St. Peter the Apostle - closed 2019 - in the Third Ward; before its closure was a PreK-8 school; peak enrollment was about 600 students in the 1960s [43] Prior to 2009 St. Peter was a middle school with grades 6–8; that year St. Philip Neri School merged into St. Peter, making it PK-8. [44] From 2014 to 2019 enrollment declined by 70%. [29]
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.
Student leadership development through the Works of Mercy program is a distinct characteristic of the school, and leadership principles are integrated into every course at St. John XXIII. 'SJ23' is accredited by/a member of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston (RCAGH), led by Archbishop Daniel DiNardo. SJ23 is also the newest ...
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.
Bishop John Morkovsky, S.T.D., approved the plan and appointed a board of trustees composed of laymen and priests representing all the parishes in Galveston County. The Board named the newly consolidated school after the Right Rev. Monsignor Daniel P. O’Connell, P.A., pastor of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Galveston from 1933 until his death in ...