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Aldine Independent School District is a school district
School district
School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...

 based in an unincorporated
Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 Harris County
Harris County, Texas
As of the 2010 Census, the population of the county was 4,092,459, White Americans made up 56.6% of Harris County's population; non-Hispanic whites represented 33.0% of the population. Black Americans made up 18.9% of the population. Native Americans made up 0.7% of Harris County's population...

, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. It serves portions of Houston and unincorporated Harris County. AISD is part of the taxation base for the Lone Star College System. Dr. Wanda Bamberg serves as superintendent of schools.

In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable
Texas Education Agency accountability ratings system
The Texas Education Agency accountability ratings system rates all public schools, charter schools, and school districts in the State of Texas.The criteria are the same for schools and districts, and are discussed below...

" by the Texas Education Agency
Texas Education Agency
The Texas Education Agency is a branch of the state government of Texas in the United States responsible for public education. The agency is headquartered in the William B...

.

History

In 1935 the communities of Aldine, Brubaker, Higgs and Westfield which at the time were part of the Harris County Common School District 29 approved a consolidated school district which would become Aldine ISD. The districts first schools were off Aldine-Westfield near Aldine-Bender. AISD also acquired the Carver school which became the districts school for blacks after the state closed the North Houston School District in 1936. This added portions of Acres Homes to the district.

By 1947 there was an elementary, a middle and high school. Both the elementary and middle school were called Marrs, named after a former state superintendent of public instruction (now Lane and Aldine Middle respectfully). The new High school built in 1947 was named Aldine High School. In 1953 a second elementary school was built at 222 Raymac and was named Inez Carroll after a former educator in the district. On November 24, 1954 the Aldine High school campus burned to the ground. A new campus was built at 11101 Airline Drive on the site of the former Gulf Coast Airport which was completed in 1956. Several schools have since been built in the district.

Recognition

Aldine ISD ranks among the state's high performing school districts according to data from the Texas Education Agency
Texas Education Agency
The Texas Education Agency is a branch of the state government of Texas in the United States responsible for public education. The agency is headquartered in the William B...

 (TEA). The district has earned seven Recognized ratings since 1996 and was one of five 2004 and 2005 National Finalists for the Broad Prize for Urban Education. Aldine is also the second best large school district in Texas for educating African American students and is ranked third among large school districts in Texas in educating Latino students, according to recent studies conducted by Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...

 and the University of Texas-Pan American.
AISD’s school board was one of 24 school boards across the nation, and the only one in Texas, to receive the coveted Magna Award for 1999 from the American School Board Journal. The board was also named the 1998 Outstanding School Board of Texas by the Texas Association of School Administrators.

Communities Served

Aldine ISD serves the communities of Aldine
Aldine, Houston, Texas
Aldine is a census-designated place in unincorporated central Harris County, Texas, United States, located within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston. The population was 13,979 at the 2000 census. In 2007, the population was 16,008, according to City-Data...

, most of Greenspoint
Greenspoint, Houston, Texas
The Greater Greenspoint District is an edge city in northern Harris County, Texas, United States. Portions of the district are in the City of Houston while portions are in unincorporated areas...

, portions of Airline
Airline, Texas
The Airline Improvement District is a management district in unincorporated Harris County, Texas.During the 79th Regular Session of the Texas Legislature, Texas House of Representatives member Kevin Bailey authored Bill #1458, which authorized the creation of the Airline Improvement District. The...

, Acres Homes, Kinwood
Kinwood, Texas
Kinwood is an unincorporated area along U.S. Route 59 and the Southern Pacific Railroad in Harris County, Texas, United States located four miles south of the city hall of Humble.-History:...

, Bordersville
Bordersville, Houston, Texas
Bordersville is a predominantly African American community on Farm to Market Road 1960 in northeast Harris County, Texas, United States. The community, located less than one half-mile from George Bush Intercontinental Airport, has about 80% of its territory in the City of Houston and the rest in an...

, and Inwood Forest
Inwood Forest, Houston, Texas
Inwood Forest is a community in northwest Houston, Texas, United States.-History:Land in what is now Inwood Forest was originally Native American hunting grounds. In the 1860s German American farmers settled along the White Oak Bayou...

.

Demographics

AISD is a predominantly minority school district. It is made up of 60.8% students of Hispanic origin, 32.2% students of African American origin, and 4.8% students of white origin.

Around 1977 AISD was almost 75% White. During that year the Federal Government of the United States
Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that is the United States of America. The federal government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and...

 forced Aldine ISD and several other Texas schools to adopt a desegregation plan. Enacted in 1978, the plan forced the district to redraw attendance boundaries so that no school was more than 30% black. By 2002 Aldine ISD was the only school district in Texas still under a federal order. Hispanic students made up the majority, African Americans were 33%, almost double the 1977 statistic, and less than 8% of the students were White. The order asked for schools to have a percentage of African American students within 15 percentage points of the district wide Black enrollment. Therefore by 2002 schools were required to have between 18% and 48% Black students. The court order forced AISD to keep African-American faculty within 5% of the overall district percentage points for elementary schools and within 10% of the overall percentage points for secondary schools. The AISD administration criticized the court order, saying the guidelines were impossible meet. The desegregation order was removed by a federal judge in December 2002 and the attendance boundaries were redrawn. As of 2011 most AISD students attend the school closest to where they live.

Alternative Schools


High Schools (9-12)

Senior High Schools (9-12)
  • Carver High School
    Carver High School (Houston, Texas)
    Carver High School is a public secondary school located in Houston, Texas, United States.Carver High School, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Aldine Independent School District. Carver High School's mascot is the panther....

     (Houston)

Senior High Schools (10-12)
  • Aldine High School
    Aldine High School
    Aldine Senior High School is a public high school made up of two campuses located in the Greenspoint district of northern Houston, Texas, United States. The main campus serves grades 10 through 12, while Aldine Ninth Grade School serves grade 9....

     (Opened 1956) (Houston)
  • Eisenhower High School (Opened 1972) (Houston)
  • MacArthur High School (Opened 1965) (Unincorporated)
  • Nimitz High School
    Nimitz High School (Harris County, Texas)
    Chester W. Nimitz Senior High School is a public secondary school made up of two campuses located in unincorporated Harris County, Texas. The campuses have Houston addresses...

     (Opened 1978) (Unincorporated)
  • Gen. Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. High School (construction will be completed in March 2012)

Ninth Grade Schools (9)

Alternative/Magnet

Middle Schools (7-8)


Intermediate Schools (5-6)


Elementary schools (PK-4)

PK-4

KG-4

3-4

1-3

PK-K

Early Childhood Schools


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