Chávez High School (Houston)
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César E. Chávez High School is a secondary school located at 8501 Howard in Houston, Texas, United States.
Chávez High School, which is a part of the Houston Independent School District, serves grades 9 through 12. Chávez serves several areas of Houston outside of the 610 Loop in southeast Houston, including the neighborhoods of Glenbrook Valley, Gulf Freeway Oaks, and Park Place.
Chávez High School serves a mainly Hispanic and immigrant population located nearby Hobby Airport. Chávez High School was named after César E. Chávez.
The school has the Environmental Science program for HISD. The school's principal is (as of June 2006) Daniel Deleon. The school's mascot is the "lobo" (Spanish for "wolf").
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[edit] History
Chávez was established in 2000 to relieve Milby High School, which had a swelling enrollment due to immigration into southeast Houston.
The Lobos football team made the 2006 5A Texas State Football Playoffs under Head Coach Mike Jackson. The Chavez boy's basketball team also advanced to the 2006-07 State Playoffs under Head Coach Kevin Pullum.
[edit] Environmental issues
A group called the Unidos Contra Environmental Racism (UCER) protested the school's proximity to many chemical plants soon after it opened [1]; the school is located less than one quarter mile from plants owned by Texas Petroleum, Denka Chemical, USS Chemical, and Goodyear Chemical.
Juan Parras, the leader of the UCER group, stated that the school would take the brunt of a chemical leak [2].
Heather Browne, a spokeswoman for Houston ISD stated that the Chávez site was tested for environmental hazards in the air and soil in 1992 and 1996; no problems were found in the tests. Browne also stated that one park, three public swimming pools, the City Hall of South Houston, and one golf course are within two miles of Chávez [3].
[edit] Neighborhoods served by Chávez
Neighborhoods served by Chávez include Glenbrook Valley, Meadowbrook, and Meadowcreek.
[edit] School uniform
All students at Chávez are required to wear school uniforms [4]. All articles of clothing must be either black, tan or white. Pants must be "dickie" or "docker" style. Jackets must be solid color of black, tan or white, and hoods may not be worn when on campus. Shoelaces must be white or black.
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] Student body
Chávez had 2,297 students [6] as of the 2004-2005 school year.
The racial breakup is as follows:
- 83% Hispanic
- 11% African-American
- 3% Non-Hispanic White
- 3% Asian
No Native Americans were enrolled during that year.
88% of the students qualified for free or reduced lunch.
[edit] Feeder pattern
Elementary schools that feed into Chávez include all of Bonner, Park Place, and Patterson, and parts of Cornelius, Lewis, Rucker, and Sanchez. Bellfort Academy also feeds into Chávez.
Students zoned to Lewis may attend the Bellfort Academy for 4th and 5th grades. Therefore Bellfort Academy feeds into Chavez.
Middle schools that feed into Chávez include all of Ortiz and parts of Deady and Stevenson.
[edit] Small Learning Communities
Chávez High School established six Smaller Learning Communities (SLCs) in the 2002-2003 school year. The SLC structure provides a more personalized learning environment where students and teachers remain together through all four years of high school.
The SLCs consist of four Career Academies (Arts, Communications, & Media; Business & Criminal Justice; Health Science & Human Services; and Engineering & Advanced Technology), one Magnet Program (Environmental Science), and one Newcomers' Academy for beginning ESL students.
All students are enrolled in one of the Career Academies based on their career interests. Students in the Magnet program must apply for enrollment in the program according to Houston ISD Magnet School guidelines, and students in the Newcomers' Academy are enrolled based on their LEP status. Newcomers' students select one of the four Career Academies when they reach the third (intermediate) level of English Language Proficiency.
[edit] External links
- Chávez High School
- Haynes Whaley Architecture page on Chávez High School
- FKP Architecture page on Chávez High School
- FKP Architecture page on Chávez High School's interior
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| Alternative and magnet K-12 schools | T. H. Rogers |
| Alternative 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 |
