Briargrove, Houston, Texas

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A sign marking Briargrove

A street sign in St. George Place and the under-construction St. George Place Elementary School - Briargrove Elementary, as of 2006, occupies this campus

The old Briargrove Elementary School. The campus been demolished and a new one is under construction.

Briargrove is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, near Uptown Houston.

Briargrove was established in the 1950s with one-story ranch homes. Deed restrictions in the neighborhood were modified in 1986 to allow for one and one half-story and two-story homes. Afterwards some of the older ranch homes were torn down and replaced with newer two story homes.

[edit] Government

[edit] Federal and state representation

Briargrove is in Texas's 7th congressional district [1].

[edit] Fire service

Houston Fire Department operates Station 2 at 5880 Woodway at Chimney Rock [2].

[edit] Police service

The neighborhood is served by the Houston Police Department's Westside Patrol Division [3].

[edit] Education

Briargrove's public schools are operated by Houston ISD. Briargrove is zoned to Briargrove Elementary School and Grady Middle School. Briargrove Elementary School is consistently at capacity; Houston ISD is (as of 2006) building St. George Place Elementary School to relieve Briargrove Elementary School. Briargrove Elementary is also getting a new campus, which is scheduled to open in fall 2007.

Briargrove students may choose between Lee High School, Lamar High School, and Westside High School. Most Briargrove pupils who remain in the public school system go to Lamar High School. The T.H. Rogers School, an alternative K-12 school for gifted and talented students, deaf students, and multiply impaired students, is nearby Briargrove.

St. Michael School, a Roman Catholic K-8 school that is a part of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, is in the area [4].

Al-Hadi School of Accelerative Learning, a private K-12 Islamic school, is in the area [5].

Other nearby private schools include St. John's School in Houston and The Kinkaid School in Piney Point Village.

[edit] Community information

The city of Houston operates the Tanglewood Park at 5801 Woodway [6] and the Grady Park at 1700 Yorktown [7].

Houston Fire Department Station 2 Woodway is across from Tanglewood Park [8].

The closest first-run movie theater is the Edwards Theatres Grand Palace 24.

The closest YMCA to Briargrove is the Post Oak YMCA.

[edit] External links

• Briargrove
• http://www.heritagetexas.com/neighborhoods/briargrove.htm

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