Kashmere High School
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Kashmere High School is a secondary school located in Houston, Texas.
Kashmere, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District.
Kashmere contains the Conrad O. Johnson School of Fine Arts, a Houston ISD magnet school program.
Kashmere, along with Jack Yates High School and Sam Houston High School, are the three high schools in Houston ISD which have been consistently low-performing in test scores from 2001 to 2004. Because of this problem, there were movements to have the state or another organization take over the schools for a period so the test scores will be at acceptable levels. While Yates got an acceptable rating in 2005, Houston and Kashmere continued to get unacceptable ratings. In August 2006 the school learned that it again is getting an unacceptable rating from the Texas Education Agency [1]. When the Houston ISD administration threatened closure if another "unacceptable" rating came the following year, the local community protested [2].
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[edit] Music
Kashmere High School was home of the Kashmere Stage Band, a nationally renowned band that released several jazz/funk albums in the 1960s and 1970s. They are also known for the marvellously exquisite vocal ensemble under the direction of Joan E. Hubert;a member of Houstons Ebony Opera Guild. These student's splendid talent took them to the continent of Africa in 1997. In 2003 they performed for Senator Rodney Ellis and were the featured choir in Martin Luther King Memorial Concert along with the Scott Joplin Orchestra that resides in Texas Southern University. Kashmere had Jay-Z as "principal for a day" [3] in 2002.
[edit] Student body
Kashmere, during the 2004-2005 school year, had a total of 790 students [4]. Kashmere had the lowest enrollment of any HISD comprehensive high school.
- 88% of the students were African-American
- 11% were Hispanic
- 1% were White American
No students enrolled that year were Asian or Native American.
90% of the students qualified for free or reduced lunch.
[edit] Neighborhoods served by Kashmere
Kashmere serves the Houston Gardens, Kashmere Gardens, and Trinity Gardens areas.
[edit] Former school uniforms
Kashmere required school uniforms [5] during the 2005-2006 school year.
Students are required to wear red, white, or navy blue polo shirts.
Trousers, and skirts must be khaki, navy blue, or blue jeans.
This policy was modified to include blue jeans for the 2006-2007 school year.
[edit] Feeder patterns
Elementary schools that feed into Kashmere include:
- Bowie
- Cook
- Houston Gardens
- Kashmere Gardens
(partial)
- Berry
- Isaacs
- McDade
- Ross
Two middle schools, Key Middle School and Henry Middle School, have some of their students move on to Kashmere.
Chatham, Easter, and Sanderson elementary schools fed into Kashmere prior to their closures after spring 2006. Some of Concord fed into Kashmere until it was converted into an early education center; Isaacs took Concord's old zoning boundary.
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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 |
