Briargrove Elementary School

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A street sign in St. George Place and the under-construction St. George Place Elementary School - Briargrove Elementary, as of 2006, occupies this campus

The old Briargrove Elementary School (now demolished)

Briargrove Elementary School is a primary school located in Houston, Texas.

Briargrove, which serves grades Kindergarten through 5, is a part of the Houston Independent School District.

[edit] History

Briargrove opened in January 1958 at 5300 San Felipe, which was the south side of Grady Elementary School (the campus is now Grady Middle School). The school moved to its permanent site at 6145 San Felipe in fall 1958 [1].

In fall 2006 the school moved to a temporary site at 5430 Hidalgo; the former school building at 6145 San Felipe was torn down to make way for a brand new school building. In fall 2007, the school will move to the new campus at 6145 San Felipe and the campus at 5430 Hidalgo will be St. George Place Elementary School.

The new campus was built by FKP Architects, with Heery International, Incorporated as the project manager. The original budget for the campus is $16.000,000 [2].

[edit] Neighborhoods served

Subdivisions served by Briargrove include Briargrove and Tanglewood as well as areas within the Uptown Houston district north of Westheimer Road and a small section of the city of Hunters Creek Village.

[edit] School uniforms

Briargrove requires its students to wear school uniforms [3].

[edit] Feeder patterns

All residents normally zoned to Briargrove Elementary School are also zoned to Grady Middle School.

Normally zoned residents are zoned to Lee High School but have Lamar and Westside as alternate choices.

For the 2006-2007 school year, some subdivisions inside the 610 Loop that were formerly zoned to Will Rogers were zoned to Briargrove for the 2006-2007 school year and will transfer to St. George Place Elementary School for the 2007-2008 school year. Residents in those subdivisions are zoned to Lanier Middle School and Lamar High School.

[edit] External links

• Briargrove Elementary School