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Pearland Independent School District is a school district based in Pearland, Texas, United States. Pearland ISD serves most of the city of Pearland, the city of Brookside Village, [1] and unincorporated areas in Brazoria County (including Silverlake). A small portion of the district extends into Harris County. [2]
Pearland (/ ˈ p ɛər l æ n d / PEAR-land) is a city in Brazoria County, with portions extending into Fort Bend and Harris counties, in Texas, United States.The city of Pearland is a principal city within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area.
The town would become immortalized as the scene of what is considered the greatest gunfight in the history of the Old West, the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. [105] Copper was also discovered in 1877, near Bisbee and Jerome in Arizona, which became an important component of the economy of the Southwest. Production began in 1880 and was made more ...
Pearland High School (PHS) is an American public high school, located in Pearland, Texas, south of Houston. It is one of three high schools in the Pearland Independent School District, and serves parts of Pearland and most of the city of Brookside Village. U.S. News & World Report ranks it 242nd in Texas
A 1912 oil boom led to the city's development as a refining center, [7] with over 50 refineries operating in Cushing over its history. [8] Today, Cushing is a major trading hub for crude oil and a price settlement point for West Texas Intermediate on the New York Mercantile Exchange [ 9 ] and is known as the "Pipeline Crossroads of the World."
The school district is the seventh-largest public school system in the state of Texas and third largest within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown Metropolitan Area. The school district is currently the largest employer in Fort Bend County with more than 11,000 district employees, and encompasses some of the wealthiest locales in the State of Texas.
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From the 1980 U.S. Census to the 1990 Census, many African-Americans left traditional African-American neighborhoods and entered parts of Southwest Houston; areas of Southwest Houston received from more than 1,000 African-Americans per square mile to more than 3,500 African-Americans per square mile.