Sharpstown High School
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Sharpstown High School is a secondary school located at 7504 Bissonnet in Houston, Texas, United States with a zip code of 77074.
Sharpstown High School, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District.
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[edit] History
Sharpstown High School was originally in the campus now occupied by Sharpstown Middle School. In the 1970s Sharpstown High School moved into a new campus.
A 2003 state audit of HISD's performance caused more controversy. One of the district's most publicized accomplishments during the Rod Paige era was a dramatic reduction in dropout rates. When 16 secondary schools, including Sharpstown High School, were audited, it was found that most of the students who left school from those schools in 2000-2001 should have been counted as dropouts, but were not. [1] It was found that the administrators at Sharpstown deliberately changed the dropout rate at the school. The Sharpstown controversy resulted in a recommendation to label the entire HISD as "unacceptable." Former Sharpstown assistant principal Robert Kimball asserts that HISD coerced administrators at many schools to lie on dropout rates. HISD asserts that the fraud is only contained to Sharpstown, and that the false statistics at other schools were caused by confusion related to the state's system of tracking students who leave school.
[edit] Neighborhoods served
The school serves the community of Sharpstown, which was Houston's first-ever master planned community. In addition, Sharpstown High School also serves the communities of Robindell, Braeburn Glen, Braeburn Terrace, Braeburn Valley, Braeburn Valley West, Sharpstown Country Club Terrace, and portions of Fondren Southwest.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Robert Drinkard - famed trial attorney and semi-professional poker player
- Clarance Bagby - A journalist who founded the Houston Lesbian and Gay Community Center
- Robert Earl Keen - A singer and songwriter
- David McCarty - Professional baseball player for the Minnesota Twins
- Luke Prestridge - Retired professional American football player for the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots
- Michael J. Reardon and Patrick R. Reardon - Cardiothoracic surgeons at the Baylor College of Medicine who developed an "autotransplant" technique along with Denton Cooley.
- Steve "The Rocket" Rosen - A high-profile trial lawyer
- Margaret Spellings - The United States Secretary of Education (as of 2006).
- Forest "Greg" Swindell - Retired professional baseball player for the Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, and Arizona Diamondbacks.
- Joseph Addai (American football player for the Indianapolis Colts)
- Barrett Robbins (Former Center for the Oakland Raiders)
[edit] Feeder patterns
All of Bonham, McNamara, and White Elementary Schools and parts of Herod, Milne, Neff, Sutton, and Valley West feed into Sharpstown High School.
Parts of Fondren, Long, Sharpstown, and Welch Middle Schools feed into Sharpstown High School. Since any student zoned to Long may attend Pin Oak Middle School, Pin Oak also feeds into Sharpstown High School.
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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 |
