Sharpstown Middle School
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| Principal Administrator | Jeff Amerson |
| Grade levels | 6 - 8 |
| Founded | 1967 |
| School type | Public school (U.S.) |
| Religious affiliation | None |
| Location | Houston, Texas, United States |
| Enrollment | 1,264 students (2005-2006 school year) |
| Campus surroundings | Urban |
| Mascot | Vikings |
| School colors | Green, Gold |
| Magnet | Partial: Architectural and Graphic Design |
| School Hours | 8:20 AM to 3:45 PM |
| Average Class Size | 24 |
Sharpstown Middle School is a secondary school in Houston, Texas located at 8330 Triola Lane with a zip code of 77036. Sharpstown Middle School, which serves grades 6 through 8, is part of the Houston Independent School District.
Sharpstown Middle School, which is located in Sharpstown area, is denoted as having an archtitectural and graphic design magnet program offering graphic designing classes to students who wish to become designers in the future. The school was named after Sharpstown, the community it is located in.
Sharpstown MS offers one foreign language class, Spanish, 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 also hosts summer school for HISD.
Sharpstown Middle has an Advanced Placement Program (PreAP/AP).
The school's mascot for its sports team is the "Viking". One major activity that Sharpstown Middle offers to students and their parents is their annual Winterfest. Winterfest happens every first Tuesday of December offering many games and activities both students and parents can enjoy throughout the night.
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[edit] History
Sharpstown Middle School was originally built in 1967 as a high school. It was named Sharpstown Junior/Senior High School housing grades 6 - 12. It remained as a high school until the school became overpopulated because students all over the Sharpstown area attended the school. Sometime ,15 years later, HISD and other personnel decided to build a high school in another area and make the current school as a middle school.
As HISD agreed, Sharpstown High School was built at the southern part of Sharpstown. The movement relieved the attendance at Sharpstown Middle School. As years passed, the school grew old, but in 2002, HISD Rebuild renovated the school. Today people living in the area of Sharpstown Middle School go to the school's track/football/soccer fields to exercise.
[edit] Location
As mentioned earlier, Sharpstown is located in the Sharpstown Area of Houston. Sharpstown Middle of a few minutes away from the Sharpstown Center in Bellaire Boulevard and the U.S. Highway 59 (Southwest Freeway). Also, Sharpstown is a few minutes in the currently renovated Memorial Hermann Hospital Southwest on Beechnut and Highway 59.
[edit] Student body
Sharpstown Middle School opened as a predominantly White middle school. As of 2006, Sharpstown Middle School is a majority Hispanic school. [1] 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% African-American, and 1% White. More than 90% of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
[edit] Neighborhoods served by Sharpstown
Many parts of Houston southwest of Downtown Houston that are inside Beltway 8 and outside the 610 Loop are zoned to Sharpstown.
The school serves half of the community of Sharpstown, which was Houston's first-ever master planned community. In addition, Sharpstown High School also serves the communities of Braeburn Glen, a portion of Braeburn Valley, a portion of Robindell, and Sharpstown Country Club Terrace.
[edit] Transportation
Houston ISD provides school buses for students who live more that two miles away from the school or who have major obstacles between their houses and the school.
[edit] School uniforms
Sharpstown Middle School has a mandatory school uniform policy. Uniforms consist of T-shirts bought from the school and long khaki trousers. [2]
The Texas Education Agency 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 [3]; parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons for philosophical objections.
[edit] Feeder patterns
Elementary schools that feed into Sharpstown Middle include Bonham, McNamara, Neff, and White.
Sharpstown Middle feeds into Sharpstown High School and Lee High School (any student zoned to Lee may also attend Lamar or Westside High Schools).
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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 |
