Jesse H. Jones High School

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Jesse H. Jones High School is a public secondary school located at 7414 Saint Lo in Houston, Texas.

Jones, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District.

Jones was named after Jesse Holman Jones.

The current principal administrator, Adele Rogers, was the principal of Holland Middle School prior to becoming the principal of Jones.

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[edit] History

Jones was established as an all-white high school. Starting with its desegregation in 1970, the student body increasingly became mostly African-American.

Jones had the Vanguard gifted and talented magnet program from fall 1977 to spring 2002. Parents of children in the program clashed with the administration of the school. The move that prompted the program's separation from Jones High School was the reinstatement of Lawrence Allen, a fired Jones principal who was reinstated several days later [1]. When reinstated he only was in charge of the comprehensive program at Jones.

In 2002, the program was moved to a separate school, Carnegie Vanguard High School. As of 2006, Jones does not have a magnet program.

On September 15, 2005, Houston natives and New Orleans Hurricane Katrina evacuees fought in the school. The fight made national headlines. [2]

[edit] Student body

As of 2006, Jones' student body has 1,077 students and is majority African-American (58%) with a large Hispanic minority (40%). Whites and Asians each make up 1% of the student body. 83% of the students qualify for free and reduced lunch programs. [3]

[edit] School uniforms

Jones students are required to wear school uniforms [4] (PDF file.)

All students must wear black or khaki bottoms.

PACE community students wear golden yellow or white shirts. TAC community students wear red shirts. GE students wear golden yellow, gray, or black shirts.

The Texas Education Agency specified 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 the uniform [5]; parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.

[edit] Neighborhoods zoned to Jones

Neighborhoods include South Park, Golfcrest, Greenway, Lum Terrace, and a portion of Santa Rosa.

The Long Drive Townhomes, a unit of public housing, is zoned to Jones.

[edit] Notable Alumni

[edit] Feeder patterns

Elementary schools that feed into Jones include Alcott, Bastian, Brookline, Cornelius, Golfcrest, Gregg, Kelso, and Seguín.

Attucks and Hartman Middle Schools feed into Jones.

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Houston Independent School District
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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
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Elementary schools Briargrove | Longfellow | Neff | Poe | River Oaks | Roberts | Twain | West University | Others
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