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75-598: CLC, which serves grades 7 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District . CLC was located in the Third Ward area, near Midtown . CLC served students who do not succeed in traditional school environments and need more academic motivation and better attendance records. CLC included Houston Night High School , Houston ISD's evening high school program. The school, which served grades 9–12, opened in 1975 and closed in

150-514: A Cleaning and Pressing Program. In 1997, a geographic area south of Interstate 45 was rezoned from Austin High School to Yates. After the 2000 opening of Chávez High School , portions of the Yates boundary were reassigned to Austin High School. From 1998 through 2002, the school reported that 99% of students graduating from Yates planned to attend colleges and universities. In response

225-473: A course but otherwise had passing grades to do cleaning work to make up for the absences. HISD asked Yates to change its policy. Yates competes in several sports, but the most prominent and successful sport on campus is boys' basketball. In 1994 Andrew W. Miracle, the author of Lessons of the Locker Room: The Myth of School Sports , wrote that the athletics programs at Yates High School have

300-654: A grade of 84. In 2019 271 HISD schools were counted in TEA accountability ratings. 250 schools passed, while 21 (7.5% of schools) did not. In 2020 the HISD board voted 6-3 against naming Lathan as permanent superintendent. Millard House became the new superintendent on July 1, 2021. All board members voted to approve him and he was the only finalist for the position. He was from the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System . During

375-406: A minimum of press coverage and controversy by using a participative process that minimized conflict between various Houston neighborhoods. McAdams credits the move with being the catalyst for the 1995 establishment of 11 geographic districts patterned around high school feeder patterns. In 1994, after superintendent Petruzielo left the district, the school district voted 6-1 to make Yvonne Gonzalez

450-471: A model for other urban school districts as a way to provide a high quality education and keep top performing students in the inner city from fleeing to private schools or exurban school districts. Magnet schools are popular with parents and students that wish to escape low-performing schools and school violence. The members of the administration of schools losing students to higher-performing campuses, such as Bill Miller of Yates High School , complained about

525-405: A parent and alumnus of Yates quoted in a 2003 The New York Times article, Larry Blackmon, stated that "Absolutely, positively, no way. You'd get more of an accurate count asking elementary kids if they plan to go to college." Around 2003, Yates' principal hired several uncertified teachers and substitute teachers, using them to replace experienced but more highly paid teachers who were fired by

600-674: A phase-in with each subsequent grade being integrated. Local African-American leaders believed the pace was too slow, and William Lawson, a youth minister, asked Wheatley students to boycott school. Five days afterwards 10% of Wheatley students attended classes. In 1970 a federal judge asked the district to speed the integration process. Simultaneously Mexican Americans were being discriminated against when they were being labeled as whites and being put with only African Americans as part of HISD's desegregation / integration plan. This kept both Mexican Americans and African Americans away from Anglos while satisfying integration requirements set forth by

675-471: A remodeling, but the school was still overcrowded as the enlarged facility was designed for 1,600 students. By March 1954 the student body was over 3,000. As a result of the overcrowding the Southern Association of Secondary Schools pulled Yates's accreditation. In 1955, as a new Allen Elementary School opened in a neighborhood far from its original location, the former Allen campus, in what

750-530: A semi-peaceful manner. River Oaks Elementary School became the first school to implement the HISD's Vanguard Program in the fall of 1972, with a program for 4th-6th graders. This program was initially named the Elementary School For The Gifted. The Vanguard Program name was adopted a year later. A desegregation busing plan, protested by Anglo White westside neighborhoods not wanting their children bused to predominately black schools,

825-432: A settlement agreement. Kenneth Davis, who previously served as the principal of Dowling Middle School (now Lawson Middle School) and as a supervisor of HISD middle school principals, became the principal of Yates at that time. In June 2018, Tiffany Guillory became the principal. In December 2022 HISD administrators placed her on leave. The district leadership did not publicly state why the leave had occurred. Residents in

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900-416: A special focus and draws students throughout HISD. Each vanguard program is a gifted and talented program for students throughout HISD. A neighborhood vanguard program is a program designed for gifted and talented children zoned to a particular school. As of 2011, its 113 programs served almost 20% of the HISD student population. HISD, which officially first opened its magnet system in 1975, started them as

975-609: A symbol of solidarity in the Third Ward." In June 2016, members of the Jack Yates and HISD communities held a ground-breaking ceremony for the new campus. A $ 59.4 million campus was completed next to the old campus in summer 2018. Yates was established on February 8, 1926, as Yates Colored High School with 17 teachers and 600 students. The school, at 2610 Elgin, was the second school for African-Americans in Houston . At

1050-486: A unit of Houston Housing Authority (HHA) public housing , is zoned to Yates. In addition, Cambridge Oaks, a university housing complex, is zoned to Yates. Cambridge Oaks houses University of Houston students who have dependent children and is the institution's designated family housing unit. The current Yates campus has the Crimson & Gold Café as its cafeteria, and it has eight science laboratories. The campus

1125-563: A vendor, and HISD. Frankie Wong, former president of Micro Systems, and two Dallas Independent School District administrators received criminal charges. As of 2007 several existing HISD schools were converting to K-8 school setups while other new K-8 schools were opening. Prior to the bond election in November 2007, the district abandoned a proposal to convert several schools into K-8 campuses due to African American neighborhoods communities resisting proposed school consolidations. In 2011

1200-666: A way to voluntarily racially integrate schools. The High School for Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) was technically the first magnet school in Houston; this status was mistakenly attributed to River Oaks Elementary School . In 1984 the district had 75 magnet programs. By the mid-1990s many magnet schools no longer held the goal of integration and instead focused on improving educational quality of schools. As of 2011 magnet schools continued to be popular among HISD constituents. HISD's magnet (Performing Arts, Science, Health Professions, Law Enforcement, etc.) high schools are considered

1275-633: Is located between Texas Southern University and the University of Houston. In 2012, Richard Connelly of the Houston Press ranked the previous 1958 Yates campus as the second most architecturally beautiful high school campus in Greater Houston . Connelly said that "Some would call this generic, but we like the proud `60s style." In 2018, the school had approximately 900 students. About 90% African-American and 10% Hispanic, In 2010,

1350-799: Is more equity in its gifted and talented program. As of the 2014-2015 school year, over 59,700 HISD students reported the language spoken at home by their families as Spanish. Over 925 reported their home language as Arabic and over 445 reported their home language as Vietnamese. As of 2015 other common languages were Mandarin Chinese, Nepali, and Urdu. As of 2014 the most common native languages for limited English and/or English learner students were Spanish (58,365 students, or 92% of ELL students), Arabic (855 or 1.3%), Vietnamese (437 or 0.7%), Mandarin Chinese (319 or 0.5%), Nepali (295, 0.5%), Swahili (250 or 0.4%), French (139 or 0.2%), Urdu (143 or 0.2%), Amharic (107 or 0.2%), and Tigrinya (104 or 0.2%). As of 2013

1425-617: Is now Midtown , became the Yates Annex, a school for black 7th graders. In 1956, the annex was converted into J. Will Jones Elementary School. On January 27, 1958, Worthing High School opened, relieving Yates. Yates moved to its Sampson Street location in September 1958. Yates's former site became Ryan Colored Junior High School (now Ryan Middle School ), named after the first principal of Yates. The HISD school board forced Holland to stay at Ryan Middle School instead of moving onto

1500-600: The COVID-19 pandemic in Texas House agreed to institute a mask mandate effective fall 2021 despite Governor of Texas Greg Abbott banning school districts from having mask mandates. Additionally the HISD board of education voted to approve the mask mandate. The vote was eight in favor and none voting against. In 2023 the Texas Education Agency announced that it will remove the superintendent and

1575-596: The Philippines from 1998 to 2007. Bilingual educational services, as of 2014, are available for Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese, Nepali, Urdu, and Swahili speakers. According to Texas Administrative Code BB § 89.1205 a language is eligible to have a bilingual program if 20 or more students are present in a school district who speak that language as their home language. Houston ISD offers three specialized programs, magnet programs , vanguard programs, and neighborhood vanguard programs. Each magnet program has

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1650-457: The Texas Education Agency (TEA) had opened an investigation against the school board and ordered a halt to any efforts to recruit a permanent superintendent. By August 2019 the TEA wrote a preliminary report recommending that the HISD school board be dissolved, with a state-appointed board of managers and conservator replacing it, and to reduce the accreditation of HISD. The report alleges wrongdoing of various board members, including violations of

1725-714: The Texas Education Agency in 2005. The 2005 enrollment was below 50% of the enrollment 20 years prior. In a 2005 Houston Chronicle article Bill Miller, president of the Yates High School Parent-Teacher-Student Association, criticized the decrease in enrollment. Many students in the Yates High School attendance zone instead chose to attend other high schools. Miller proposed having HISD end its open enrollment policies. In an e-mail sent in 2010, HISD board member and former Yates student Paula Harris said that she

1800-622: The Texas Education Agency ordered the North Forest Independent School District (NFISD) to close, pending approval from the U.S. Justice Department . NFISD would be merged into HISD. On June 13, 2013, the HISD board voted unanimously to absorb the North Forest Independent School District (NFISD). HISD won the Broad Prize in 2013. On January 14, 2016, the HISD board voted 5-4 to rename four campuses named after Robert E. Lee or others linked to

1875-524: The University Interscholastic League (UIL). In February 2012, Yates was reclassified as a UIL 3A school, down from the 4A level. In 2010, Paul Knight of the Houston Press reported that, "no high school basketball team in the state and perhaps the country has played better than Yates." As of 2010, only two of the players on the basketball team were not from the Third Ward . In March 2010, Yates' boys basketball team

1950-484: The "pride" present in the school, the students' compliance with the school uniform policy, and hallways that were "clean enough to eat on". Yates, along with Sam Houston High School and Kashmere High School , was low-performing in test scores from 2001 to 2004. Because of this problem, there were movements to have the state or another organization take over the schools for a period so the test scores would be at acceptable levels. Yates received an "acceptable" rating from

2025-547: The 1924-1925 school year. In 1927, Houston ISD annexed the Harrisburg School District's colored school. The district also built new schools such as the former Jack Yates High School (later Ryan Middle School ) and Wheatley High School . The capacity of Houston's secondary schools for black children increased by three times from 1924 to 1929. The original secondary school for blacks was named Colored High School (now Booker T. Washington High School ). At

2100-542: The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education court case decision. Many Mexican Americans took their children out of the public schools and put them in "huelga," or protest schools. On August 31, 1970, and organized by the Mexican-American Education Council (MAEC), they began three weeks of boycotts, protests, and picketing. This action lasted approximately three weeks, during which up to 75% of the student bodies of some high schools participated in

2175-537: The Confederacy. In October 2018 the HISD board chose to appoint Saavedra as the interim HISD superintendent, but the board later reversed its decision. The board members who did not favor bringing in Saavedra were not aware of this until a board member who did support this announced the decision at an official board meeting. The reversal meant that Grenita Latham remained as the interim superintendent. By 2019

2250-661: The Houston Baptist Academy as the Houston College, the school offered a special opportunity to the black children of the community who sought an alternative to the Colored High School of the public school system. Yates has HISD's magnet program for communications: broadcast TV, radio, print, and photography. Yates also houses a maritime studies magnet program. In 2010, Paul Knight of the Houston Press wrote that "the school remains

2325-789: The October 2006 "For Your Information" newsletter, the eleven HISD schools which took the largest number of Katrina evacuees were: A University of Houston study concluded that the presence of Katrina evacuees did not impact the test score grades of native Houstonian students. In 2007 the Federal Bureau of Investigation , the Federal Communications Commission , and the United States Department of Justice began an investigation probing business relationships between Micro Systems Enterprises,

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2400-488: The Texas Open Meetings Act. The TEA initially had suggested a board takeover due to poor performance at some schools, but the alleged violation of the open meetings act when several board members attempted to re-hire Saavedra, without the knowledge of the remaining board members, became the reason to seek dismissal of the board. In 2019 HISD received a grade of 88 - "B" - from the TEA, while in 2018 it had

2475-607: The Third Ward to the suburbs. Violence became more common and the facility was defaced with graffiti. William G. Ouchi, author of Making Schools Work: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need , wrote that due to the loss of the middle and upper class students, Yates "fell on hard times." The Yates photography magnet school program began in fall 1978. In 1987, a survey at Yates showed that 108 female students were pregnant and 50% of them were having their second pregnancies. In 1989 Chester Smith,

2550-602: The White Oak Independent School District in 1937 and portions of the Addicks Independent School District after its dissolution. In the fall of 1960 12 black students were admitted to HISD schools previously reserved for whites. The racial integration efforts in HISD, beginning in 1960, were characterized by a lack of violence and turmoil as business leaders sought not to cause disruption. Prior to 1960 HISD

2625-707: The appeals after formation of the district was denied. HISD once served the Harris County portion of Stafford , until the Stafford Municipal School District was established in 1982 to serve the entire city of Stafford. Most of Stafford was in Fort Bend ISD , with a small amount in Houston ISD. In 1987 Olivia Munoz, the district's foreign language director, said that an increase in interest in foreign languages prompted

2700-528: The area stated opposition against a proposal to remove Guillory, and the HISD board of trustees decided to retain her as principal. In 2023, Stephanie Square became principal. Several areas inside the 610 Loop that are south of Downtown , including the Third Ward , Timbercrest, University Oaks , Oak Manor, University Woods, Scott Terrace, Lucky 7, South Union, Foster Place, Washington Terrace , MacGregor Place, and LaSalette Place, as well as most of Riverside Terrace , are zoned to Yates. Cuney Homes ,

2775-556: The board of trustees, and therefore begin to directly control HISD. The Houston Independent School District takeover formally began on June 1, 2023 with the appointment of a new superintendent and board of managers. Millard House II was replaced as HISD superintendent by Mike Miles (school superintendent) as part of the planned takeover. HISD focuses on bilingual education of its predominantly Hispanic student body, including recruiting about 330 teachers from Mexico , Spain , Central and South America , Puerto Rico , China , and

2850-459: The boycotts. During the protests MAEC demanded twenty issues to be resolved and HISD began rezoning school areas within its jurisdiction in response. However, this rezoning encouraged "white flight" since minorities were now entering "white schools" in large numbers. At first the district used forced busing , but later switched to a voluntary magnet school program in order to discourage "white flight". The district eventually integrated races in

2925-452: The district suspended six female students after a fight occurred. CLC closed in 2011. During its final year of operation, about 400 students attended CLC. In March 2011, the HISD board granted the district approval to move CLC to a new building, 5 miles (8.0 km) from the old location. The school qualified for a grant intended to transform schools having problems, because CLC on repeated occasions did not meet federal academic standards. CLC

3000-421: The district to add foreign language languages to four high schools. In 1992, the district, under superintendent Frank Petruzielo, massively rezoned Houston schools, moving students from overcrowded ones to underutilized ones. Donald R. McAdams, a former HISD school board member and author of Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- and Winning!: Lessons from Houston , wrote that Petruzielo accomplished this goal with

3075-483: The district, had immense political power in HISD. He had been in the employment of the district over one decade before Oberholtzer started. By the 1930s the two men were in a power struggle. The number of students in public schools in Houston increased from 5,500 in 1888 to over 8,850 in 1927. In the 1920s, the school district expanded its infrastructure to accommodate a growing number of black students. There were 8,293 students in Houston's schools for black students in

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3150-555: The editor of the Houston Informer , had felt skepticism towards this proposal but ultimately asked Houston's African-Americans to vote for the bond and endorsed it in the Informer . In 1925, HISD originally proposed to have the school built for $ 100,000 (about $ 17373814.04 when accounting for inflation), but Richardson opposed this plan, prompting the district to revise the bond. The first principal, James D. Ryan, served from

3225-451: The effects. There are 55 elementary magnet schools, 30 magnet middle schools, and 27 magnet high schools. Some magnet schools are mixed comprehensive and magnet programs, while others are solidly magnet and do not admit any "neighborhood" students. In April 1997 a lawsuit against HISD seeking to end race-based admissions to magnet schools was filed on behalf of two white applicants to Lanier Middle School who were denied admission because

3300-666: The eighth-largest in the United States. 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 . Like most districts in Texas, it is independent of the city of Houston and all other municipal and county jurisdictions. The district has its headquarters in the Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center in Houston. In 2016,

3375-530: The expected decline for fall 2019 was 1,500. HISD officials cited enrollment in charter schools as a factor. The district chose to engage in advertising as a way to combat this. Until 1970 HISD counted its Hispanic and Latino students as "white." Between the 1970-1971 and the 1971-1972 school years, during a period of white flight from major urban school districts across the United States, enrollment at HISD decreased by 16,000. Of that number, 700 were African Americans. The HISD student body had white students as

3450-414: The historic Third Ward in Houston , Texas. Yates High School handles grades nine through twelve and is part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD). Yates was named after Reverend John Henry "Jack" Yates , a former slave and a minister. Jack Yates and other leading blacks established the Houston Baptist Academy. Within a decade, the success of the school prompted Reverend Yates to reorganize

3525-574: The interim superintendent; the school district board members described this as a "symbolic" motion as Gonzalez was the first Hispanic interim superintendent. Gonzalez served until Rod Paige became the superintendent. In 1995 HISD had a performance audit; As of 2019 this was the last such audit done. In the 1990s, after voters rejected a $ 390 million bond package, Paige contracted with The Varnett School , River Oaks Academy , and Wonderland School to house 250 students who could not be placed in HISD schools. The schools were paid $ 3,565 per student. This

3600-487: The largest group until the 1972-1973 school year, when the largest group became the black students. The white student body decreased, while the Hispanic student body increased and became HISD's largest student demographic in the 1989-1990 school year. In 1975 the student body was 39% White and 19% Hispanic. In 1981 the district had 190,000 students; 31% of the district's students were Hispanic, and 21% were White. In 1990

3675-548: The long term within the Houston ISD boundaries. Walnut Bend Elementary School 's enrollment increased from around 600 to around 800 with the addition of 184 evacuees; Walnut Bend, out of all of the Houston-area elementary schools, took the most Katrina victims. Nearby Paul Revere Middle School, located in the Westchase district, gained 137 Katrina victims. Revere, out of all of the Houston-area middle schools, has taken in

3750-497: The most Katrina victims. Houston ISD's "West Region," which includes Walnut Bend and Revere, had about one-fifth of Houston ISD's schools but contained more than half of the 5,500 Katrina evacuees in Houston schools. At the start of the 2006-2007 school year, around 2,900 Hurricane Katrina evacuees were still enrolled in Houston ISD schools. Around 700 of them were held back due to poor academic performance. 41% of evacuee 10th graders and 52% of evacuee juniors were held back. According to

3825-669: The new Yates, and a petition from the community did not succeed in changing this. Schools in HISD were named after former principals William S. Holland and James E. Codwell. After the 1970 desegregation resulting from the Civil Rights Movement , HISD had established magnet programs and other alternative education programs. Many upper and middle class blacks sent their children to Bellaire High School , Lamar High School , and other schools previously only for Whites; until 1970 HISD counted its Hispanic and Latino students as "white." In addition, many black people moved from

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3900-479: The numbers of ELL learners by home language were: 56,104 for Spanish, 662 for Arabic, 538 for English, 528 for Vietnamese, 277 for Nepali, 271 for Mandarin, 212 for Swahili, 159 for Urdu, and 1,750 for other languages. In the 2015-2016 school year, 58% of HISD students went to the schools of their attendance boundaries, about 27% attended other HISD schools, and 15% attended schools in other school districts and/or charter schools. Of high school students, 54.7% attended

3975-444: The opening until his death in 1941; William S. Holland became Yates's second principal that year. In 1927, the Yates building began housing Houston Colored Junior College, later Houston College for Negroes . In pre-desegregation times middle and upper class black families sent their children to Yates. By February 1951, Yates had 2,100 students. By that month Jack Yates had an addition that slightly increased student capacity and

4050-462: The previous CLC site. During the 2004–2005 school year, 691 students were enrolled at CLC No Native Americans were enrolled during that school year. About 80% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch. CLC requires school uniforms . Houston Independent School District The Houston Independent School District ( HISD ) is the largest public school system in Texas , and

4125-623: The principal, prohibited the school newspaper from publishing a story about a pregnant student. In the 1990s, superintendent Rod Paige recruited Robert Worthy, who was previously teaching in the Pasadena Independent School District , to revitalize the school. Worthy removed most of the administrators and 60 teachers, making up about half of the faculty, within a two-year period to remove any pre-existing negative cultural influences from Yates. Worthy also established additional Advanced Placement courses and removed

4200-567: The principal. In addition around that time Yates had gone without a school library for over a year. In 2006, Houston mayor Bill White proclaimed February 7 as "Jack Yates Senior High School Day." In 2007, a Johns Hopkins University study commissioned by the Associated Press cited Yates as a "dropout factory" where at least 40% of the entering freshman class do not make it to their senior year. In 2008 Ouchi stated that Yates had improved during Worthy's term as principal, citing

4275-673: The quota for White students was filled. The lawsuit was funded by the group "Campaign for a Color-Blind America". That year, as a result of this lawsuit, HISD removed the ethnic guidelines to Vanguard enrollment. For the 2017-2018 school year the district reported a total enrollment of 214,175 As of 2015, 7% of black students, 13% of Hispanic students, 36% of white students, and 43% of Asian students in HISD were labeled as gifted and talented. Students from wealthy families were twice as likely to be labeled as gifted and talented compared to students from economic disadvantaged backgrounds. HISD has been implementing multiple strategies to ensure there

4350-573: The same kind of importance in the Third Ward as the athletics programs at rural Texas high schools do for their respective small town and rural communities. In the segregation era, Yates did not play games against white high schools. It was a part of the Prairie View Interscholastic League , an all-black sports league, from 1940 until 1968. In 1969 the Prairie View League was dissolved and Yates joined

4425-477: The school district was rated "met standards" by the Texas Education Agency . The Brunner Independent School District merged into Houston schools in 1913-1914. Houston ISD was established in 1923 after the Texas Legislature voted to separate the city's schools from the municipal government. In the 1920s, at the time Edison Oberholtzer was superintendent, Hubert L. Mills, the business manager of

4500-414: The school had about 1,200 students. Most of them were African-American. Of the remainder, 88 were Hispanic, 7 were Asian, and 3 were White. In the 2015–2016 school year, Yates gained over 110 students who moved from other HISD schools, while 738 high school students previously attending Yates moved to other HISD schools. Yates had 3,600 students in the mid-1980s. In 2001, by a margin of 700 votes,

4575-524: The schools they were zoned to, 33% attended HISD schools that they were not zoned to, and 11.5% attended charter schools or public schools in other districts. In the 2015-2016 school year there were 4,894 students transferring to four comprehensive high schools located in communities in which 33% or more of the students were Anglo White (Bellaire, Heights, Lamar, and Westside high schools) and 4,073 students transferred to other comprehensive high schools. The student population declined by about 4,000 in 2018, and

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4650-472: The story in an attempt to discredit the Bush administration 's new accountability standards for school districts nationwide, which were partly modeled after HISD's system. In 2005, HISD enrolled evacuees from the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina who were residing in Houston. The Houston Astrodome , the shelter used for hurricane evacuees, is located within the HISD boundaries. Many Katrina evacuees stayed for

4725-424: The student body voted for an Asian American as Mr. Yates, reflecting an increase in non-black students in majority black schools in the Houston area. Students at Yates are required to wear a school uniform. The Texas Education Agency specifies that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to a school with uniforms may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear

4800-472: The student body was 43% Hispanic, 40% Black, and 15% White. At the time 45% of HISD schools had no white students. By the 1990s HISD's student body was increasingly made up of racial and ethnic minority groups. In 1999 4,400 students in the HISD boundaries were attending state-chartered schools. Jack Yates High School Jack Yates Senior High School is a public high school located at 3650 Alabama Street, very near Texas Southern University , in

4875-568: The summer of 2007. The building that housed CLC was constructed in 1925. The building originally was Johnston Junior High School. When Johnston moved to Meyerland in September 1959, Miller Junior High School opened in Johnston's former location. CLC began in 1973 as the Continuous Progress Learning and Development Center, a high school program for students who did not perform well in traditional academic environments. It

4950-430: The time schools were segregated on the basis of race . Previously Houston had only one secondary school for black people, Colored High School. In 1925 the school board stated that it would build a new black high school due to the increasing black population. The Houston Informer stated that the schools need to be named after prominent black people from the city and/or other successful black persons. The new high school

5025-416: The time, the district's three secondary schools for black students had junior high and senior high levels. There were 12,217 students in the black schools in the 1929-1930 school year. William Henry Kellar, author of Make Haste Slowly: Moderates, Conservatives, and School Desegregation in Houston , wrote that conditions in black schools "improved dramatically" in the 1920s. Houston ISD absorbed portions of

5100-448: The uniform; parents must specify " bona fide " reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections. In 2020, Yates became the fifth HISD high school to become an International Baccalaureate school. 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

5175-454: Was 10% lower than the district's own per pupil cost. A 2003 The New York Times report which asserted that HISD did not report school violence to the police created controversy in the community as teachers, students, and parents expressed concern about the district's downplaying of campus violence. HISD officials held a news conference after the publication of the story. During the conference, HISD asserted that The New York Times published

5250-527: Was a pilot project of the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA). It originally used two rooms at Miller before several temporary buildings were moved to the school. The CLC high school stayed in the temporary buildings until 1976. When the high school vacated the temporary buildings, the CLC middle school moved into the temporary buildings. In 1980 the middle school moved to the third floor. In 2006,

5325-586: Was converted into the DeVry Advantage Academy . Few students from CLC transferred to DeVry. Tracey Lewis, the principal of the DeVry school, said that the new location may have discouraged some of the earlier CLC students. Terry Grier , the HISD superintendent, agreed with Lewis's hypothesis. In the northern hemisphere fall of that year, the Young Women's College Preparatory Academy opened on

5400-476: Was rejected by the court system but white flight began by the 1970s. Circa 1972, a group of citizens in western Houston tried to form Westheimer Independent School District out of a portion of Houston ISD. It would have removed 23 square miles (60 km ) from the HISD territory. At the time 90% of the students in the area were white. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected

5475-502: Was responsible for having a principal at Yates removed from the school and for having the new principal installed. In June 2015, Ericka Mellon of the Houston Chronicle wrote that members of the Third Ward community had "concerns about leadership turnover, weak academic performance and safety problems" and were "vocal with its frustrations at Yates". In May 2015, Donetrus Hill, then the principal of Yates, resigned and took

5550-409: Was the largest racially segregated school system in the United States. In the mid-1960s Gertrude Barnstone and Black board member Hattie Mae White , the sole politically liberal members of the school board, often clashed with more conservative board members in meetings held on Monday nights; the two women made efforts to racially integrate the schools. During the 1960s, HISD's school board instituted

5625-419: Was to be named after Jack Yates , a prominent black Houstonian, and the original colored high school was renamed Booker T. Washington High School . The original Yates High was built from a $ 4 million (about $ 69495256.17 when accounting for inflation) bond program, which included $ 500,000 (about $ 8686907.02 when accounting for inflation) to renovate 17 existing schools and build new schools. Clifton Richardson,

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