Waltrip High School

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Stephen Pool Waltrip High School is a secondary school located at 1900 West 34th Street in Houston, Texas, United States with a ZIP code of 77018.

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

Waltrip has Houston ISD's Research and Technology magnet program.

Waltrip formerly had the IB Diploma Programme but discontinued it in 2005. [1]

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[edit] History

Waltrip High School opened in 1959 to serve many newly-developed post-World War II subdivisions. Waltrip relieved Reagan High School of many students when it opened. Waltrip was relieved by Scarborough Junior-Senior High School when that school opened in 1969. Waltrip was established as an all-White high school and remained all-White until 1970, when Houston ISD was forced to desegregate. Waltrip remained majority White until the mid-1980s. In the early 1990s the school was equally White, Black, and Hispanic. By the 2000s the school was majority Hispanic [2].

On October 2, 2006, a student and her mother assaulted a Houston Police Department Precinct 6 deputy over a truancy ticket. The student and her mother were arrested [3].

[edit] Neighborhoods served by Waltrip

Neighborhoods served by Waltrip include Garden Oaks, Timbergrove Manor, Shepherd Park Plaza, Shady Acres, most of Oak Forest, and a small portion of the Houston Heights.

A townhome complex called Cottage Grove is zoned to Waltrip.

At one point, all of the Houston Heights was zoned to Reagan. In 1997, a small portion was rezoned to Waltrip [4].

[edit] Student body

As of 2005, the student body [5] is predominantly Hispanic.

The makeup of the 1,819 students enrolled during the 2004-2005 school year was:

67% of the students were on free or reduced lunch programs.

[edit] School uniform

Waltrip students are not required to wear school uniforms but do enforce a dress code. This dress code consists of red, gray, or navy polo shirts and khaki or navy bottoms. [6]

The Texas Education Agency specified that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to a school with dress codes may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform [7]; parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.

[edit] Feeder patterns

Elementary schools that feed into Waltrip include Durham, Garden Oaks, Helms, Highland Heights, Love, Memorial, Oak Forest, Sinclair, and Stevens.

Middle schools that feed into Waltrip include Black, Hamilton, Hogg, and Williams.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] External links

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