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Sharpstown International School is a secondary school in Houston
Houston, Texas
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located at 8330 Triola Lane with a ZIP code of 77036. Sharpstown Middle School, which serves grades 6 through 12, is part of the Houston Independent School District
Houston Independent School District
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.
Sharpstown International School, which is located in the Sharpstown
Sharpstown, Houston, Texas
Sharpstown is a master-planned community in Greater Sharpstown, Southwest Houston, Texas, United States. It was one of the first communities to be built as a master-planned, automobile centered community and the first in Houston. Frank Sharp, the developer of the subdivision, made provisions not...
area, has an architectural and graphic design magnet program offering graphic designing classes to students who wish to become designers in the future. The school was named after its community.
Sharpstown International offers one foreign language class, Spanish
Spanish language
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, for high school credit and Introduction to Keyboarding class for high school credit. In the school year 2004–2005, all students who had the Introduction to Keyboarding class passed the class with a high school credit. Sharpstown hosts summer school for HISD. As of the 2006–2007 school year, Sharpstown offers Algebra
Algebra
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for high school credit.
Sharpstown Middle has an Advanced Placement Program (PreAP/AP).
The school's mascot for its sports team is the "Viking
Viking
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".
Sharpstown Middle offers an annual Winterfest. Winterfest happens every first Tuesday of December with many games and activities both students and parents can enjoy throughout the night.
History
Sharpstown International School was originally built in 1967 as a high school. It was named Sharpstown Junior/Senior High School housing grades 7–12. The area around the school grew quickly and, in the early 1970s, a new Sharpstown Senior High campus (serving grades 10–12) was built on Bissonnet Street. The older campus became Sharpstown Junior High, serving grades 7–9. At the beginning of the 1980–81 school year, Sharpstown Junior High became Sharpstown Middle School (grades 6–8), and Sharpstown Senior High became Sharpstown High SchoolSharpstown High School
Sharpstown High School is a secondary school located at 7504 Bissonnet Street in Greater Sharpstown, Houston, Texas, United States with a zip code of 77074. It serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of the Houston Independent School District...
.
A gathering of students at a convenience store across from the school (which was often a meeting place for Sharpstown Middle School students) before 8:00 AM on Thursday, February 3, 1994 became a fight that lead to three Sharpstown Middle School students being hospitalized. A 15-year-old boy with a stab wound to the neck received surgery. A 15-year-old boy with a stab wound to his back and a 12-year-old with a cut on his forehead were also hospitalized. Police took one 15-year-old boy into custody and referred him to juvenile probation authorities. The fight resulted in 500 students not attending classes the following day. On Monday, February 7 about 120 students did not attend classes.
In the late 1990s, Sharpstown Middle was granted a magnet program, Architecture
Architecture
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and Graphics
Graphics
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. Since the early 1990s, Sharpstown has hosted "Winterfest," which was changed to "Evening with the Arts."
In 2011 Sharpstown Middle became a 6-12 school, Sharpstown International School.
Location
Sharpstown is in the Sharpstown area of Houston. Sharpstown Middle is a few minutes away from the Sharpstown Center at Bellaire Boulevard and U.S. Highway 59 (the section next to the school is named the "Southwest Freeway"). Sharpstown is a few minutes from the Memorial Hermann HospitalMemorial Hermann Hospital
Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is the largest not-for-profit hospital system in Houston, Texas, and consists of 11 hospitals, 7 Cancer Centers, 3 Heart & Vascular Institutes, and 27 sports medicine and rehabilitation centers, in addition to other outpatient and rehabilitation centers. It was...
Southwest on Beechnut and U.S. Highway 59.
Landsdale Park is east of Sharpstown where special school activities take place.
Student body
Sharpstown Middle School opened as a predominantly White middle school. As of 2006, Sharpstown Middle School is a majority HispanicHispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic or Latino Americans are Americans with origins in the Hispanic countries of Latin America or in Spain, and in general all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino.1990 Census of Population and Housing: A self-designated classification for people whose origins...
school. During the 2005–2006 school year, Sharpstown had an enrollment of 1,264 students.
During the 2004–2005 school year, Sharpstown Middle School was 70% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 24% Black, and 1% White. More than 90% of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Neighborhoods served by Sharpstown
Sharpstown International School serves the western half of Sharpstown.Transportation
Houston ISD provides school buses for students who live more than two miles away from the school or who have major obstacles between their houses and the school.School uniforms
Sharpstown International School has a mandatory school uniformSchool uniform
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policy.
The Texas Education Agency
Texas Education Agency
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specified that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to Lamar may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform http://www.tea.state.tx.us/field/uniforms.html; parents must specify "bona fide
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" reasons, such as religious reasons for philosophical objections.
Feeder patterns
Elementary schools that feed into Sharpstown International include Neff and White.External links
- Sharpstown International School
- Sharpstown Middle School (Archive, 2009 and 2011)
- Sharpstown Middle School (Archive)