DeBakey High School for Health Professions
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School type | Public School (US) |
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District | HISD |
Grades | 9-12 |
Principal | Charlestta Deason |
Students | 706 (2004-2005) |
Mascot | Viper |
TEA Rating | Exemplary (2005-2006) |
Magnet | Medical Professions |
Location | Houston, Texas, United States |
Website | [1] |
Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions is a medical secondary school located at 3100 Shenandoah Street in Houston, Texas, United States with a ZIP code of 77021. It recently has been named the number one public high school in Houston by the Houston Chronicle and the Houston Press, a huge accomplishment for both the school and the district in belongs to. DeBakey, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District, and is located east of the Texas Medical Center, being the only HISD magnet high school for health professions. The school was named after Michael E. DeBakey, a famous heart surgeon. DeBakey does not automatically take in students from the surrounding neighborhood; thus, the surrounding neighborhood is zoned to Yates High School.
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[edit] History
The DeBakey campus is currently being renovated. Renovations started August 2006 and is expected to go through 2007. [2]. Plans for the school to be relocated within the Texas Medical Center were made, but soon canceled because the Houston Independent School District decided to renovate instead. The renovation was scheduled to began in the beginning of the 2006 summer but was delayed until the start of school and will be finished at the end of the 2006-2007 school year.
[edit] School uniforms
Students in the school have been required to wear school uniforms since the 1997-1998 school year, which is not a common practice among other high schools in the Houston Independent School District. These uniforms consist of khaki or navy bottoms and red, hunter green, white, baby blue, or navy blue polo or oxford shirts with no distictive logos. [3]However, the students are the school are allowed to wear short socks and jackets and sweaters with logos.
[edit] Student Body
As of 2005-2006 school year, the school was made up of 63%female and 37%male students. Of these, 36% were African American, 32% were Asian, 26% were Hispanic, 0% was Native American, and 6% were White. There had not been a single dropout in the school history. Despite this, every year, only around half of the students accepted into the school as a freshman actually graduate as a senior.
The school offers more than twenty-five clubs for its diverse population. Most notable clubs are BSU(Black Student Union) and VISA(Vietnamese International Student Association) for the school's two largest ethnic populations, while other clubs such as the BETA club, a club in which a student can only get into if he/she gets honor roll for his/her freshman year first cycle grade, and honor roll for his/her semester average following, are extremely known and respected. One other noticable club is HOSA(Health Occpation Students of America), which usually competes with fellow sisterschool Hightower High School, and is currently attended by one-thirds of the student body at Debakey HS.
[edit] Transportation
Houston ISD provides school bus transportation to students who live more than two miles from DeBakey or students with major obstacles in their way. Most student choose to ride the bus, most often for the reason to conserve gas money as most of the students live more than eight to twenty miles away from the school campus. The average time to reach the school by riding school bus is one hour, so many students just carpool to school or drive themselves to school.
METRO routes that serve DeBakey High School include 60 (South MacGregor/Hardy) and 68 (Brays Bayou Crosstown).
[edit] Before DeBakey
DeBakey has no actual feeder patterns since it is a magnet school. DeBakey takes children from many Houston ISD middle schools with a significant amount of students from Pershing, Johnston, Sharpstown, Hamilton, Lanier, and Fleming Middle Schools.
Some students who are enrolled in private schools in the 8th grade choose to go to DeBakey for high school [4] [5].
[edit] Notable alumni
- Judith R. Campbell, a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine
[edit] External links
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Magnet K-12 schools | T. H. Rogers |
Magnet 7-12 schools | C.L.C. |
High schools | Austin | Bellaire | Chávez | Davis | Furr | Sam Houston | Jones | Kashmere | Lamar | Lee | Madison | Milby Reagan | Scarborough | Sharpstown | Sterling | Waltrip | Washington | Westbury | Westside | Wheatley | Worthing | Yates |
Magnet-Only High schools | Carnegie Vanguard | Challenge Early College | DeBakey | H.S.P.V.A. | Barbara Jordan | H.S.L.E.C.J. |
K-8 schools | Gregory-Lincoln | Woodson |
K-8 magnet schools | Briarmeadow | Kandy Stripe | Rice |
1-8 schools | E.O. Smith |
Middle schools | Attucks | Black | Burbank MS | Clifton | Cullen | Deady | Dowling | Edison | Fleming | Fondren MS | Fonville | Grady Hamilton | Hartman | Henry | Hogg | Holland | Jackson | Johnston | Key | Long | Lanier | Marshall | McReynolds Ortíz | Pershing | Pin Oak | Revere | Ryan | Sharpstown | Stevenson | Thomas | Welch | West Briar |
Elementary schools | Briargrove | Longfellow | Neff | Poe | River Oaks | Roberts | Twain | West University | Others |