Katy Independent School District
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The Katy Independent School District is a public school district in the state of Texas, United States.
It covers the city of Katy, a small portion of the city of Fulshear (The portion has no residents as of 2007), and a small portion of west Houston (including the Addicks community). Many unincorporated areas around Katy, such as Cinco Ranch, are a part of KISD. Most of the area coverage lies in the city of Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ).
The Katy ISD area is a part of the Houston Community College System but is not part of the tax base. Students pay a higher tuition than those that reside in the tax base.
All houses and residential areas of Katy ISD are assigned to an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school by subdivision.
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[edit] History
The Katy common school districts (CSD) was formed in 1898 to serve the townsite and surrounding communities, a one-room school house was constructed at the site of the current Katy Elementary School.
The Katy independent school district (ISD) was established by voters in 1918, and incorporated the common school districts in Dishman, Schlipf, Sills and a school for African-Americans.
The size of Katy ISD was increased to 126 square-miles, in 1931, when KISD annexed two small common school districts at the South Mayde and Stockdick communities.
In 1961 voters in Katy ISD and in the Addicks community, agreeded to consolidation of the defunct Addicks ISD with Katy ISD, and the present boundaries of the district were created.[1].
1965 construction was completed at the new Katy High School site on Highway 90 in Katy.
By 1970 Katy ISD completed desegregation of its schools.
[edit] Historical Controversies
Cinco Ranch High School has many of its own controversies.
Student Code of Conduct In 1993 Katy ISD reprinted the Texas criminal code in its student code of conduct. Among the acts prohibited were having sex with animals.
The board had not read the code of conduct before approving it, so the school district was lampooned on the David Letterman show.
Special Education Contradicting the district's ever-growing 'college prep' emphasis, it is reported that students with disabilities are discouraged from attending college. Although colleges and universities now provide "reasonable accommodation" to students under the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is alleged that the district's special education program does not fully meet the needs of the special-needs students. It has also been reported that students with disabilities have not been fairly treated with respect to [2] disciplinary problems.
[edit] Current Controversies
Religion On February 13, 2006 several parents filed a lawsuit against KISD regarding religion. They accused KISD of religious discrimination in several incidents. KISD has released an official statement.
[edit] Schools
[edit] Secondary schools
[edit] High schools
3 in Katy, 3 in unincorporated Harris County, 2 in unincorporated Fort Bend County
[edit] AAAAA
- Cinco Ranch High School (Unincorporated Fort Bend County)
- Katy High School (Katy)
- Mayde Creek High School (Unincorporated Harris County)
- Morton Ranch High School (Unincorporated Harris County)
- James E. Taylor High School (nicknamed "Katy Taylor" since a different Taylor High School was built in nearby Alief ISD - Unincorporated Harris County)
[edit] AAAA
- Seven Lakes High School (Unincorporated Fort Bend County)
[edit] Other
- Arthur Miller Career & Technology Center (Katy)
- Opportunity Awareness Center (Katy)
[edit] Junior High schools
1 in Katy, 6 in unincorporated Harris County, 3 in unincorporated Fort Bend County
- Rodger and Ellen Beck Junior High School (Fort Bend County)
- Beckendorff Junior High School (Fort Bend County)
- Cinco Ranch Junior High School (Fort Bend County)
- Katy Junior High School (Katy)
- Mayde Creek Junior High School (Harris County)
- T.H. McDonald Junior High School (Harris County)
- Garland McMeans Junior High School (Harris County)
- Memorial Parkway Junior High School (Harris County)
- Morton Ranch Junior High School (Harris County)
- West Memorial Junior High School (Harris County)
[edit] Elementary schools
2 in Katy, 1 in Houston, 16 in unincorporated Harris County, 8 in unincorporated Fort Bend County
- Roosevelt Alexander Elementary School (Fort Bend County)
- Bear Creek Elementary School (Harris County)
- Cimarron Elementary School (Harris County)
- Sue Creech Elementary School (Fort Bend County)
- Jo Ella Exley Elementary School (Fort Bend County)
- Edna Mae Fielder Elementary School (Fort Bend County)
- Franz Elementary School (Harris County)
- Loraine T. Golbow Elementary School (Harris County)
- Michael Griffin Elementary School (Fort Bend County)
- Jeanette Hayes Elementary School (Harris County)
- Zelma Hutsell Elementary School (Katy)
- Katy Elementary School (Katy)
- Kilpatrick Elementary School (Fort Bend County)
- Robert E. King Elementary School (Harris County)
- Mayde Creek Elementary School (Harris County)
- Polly Ann McRoberts Elementary School (Harris County)
- Memorial Parkway Elementary School (Harris County)
- Nottingham Country Elementary School (Harris County)
- Hazel S. Pattison Elementary School (Harris County)
- Rhoads Elementary School (Harris County)
- Rylander Elementary School (Fort Bend County)
- Betty and Jean Schmalz Elementary School (Harris County)
- Sundown Elementary School (Harris County)
- West Memorial Elementary School (Harris County)
- James Williams Elementary School (Fort Bend County)
- Diane Winborn Elementary School (Harris County)
- Maurice L. Wolfe Elementary School (formerly Addicks Elementary School - Houston)
[edit] Future Schools
Katy I.S.D. has many schools planned, including two more high schools, three junior high schools, and five elementary schools. More may be added, as this district is the fastest growing in Texas.
Three new high school sites have been proposed, one site will be between Katy and Seven Lakes High School at Katy Gaston Road and Greenbusch Road, a second will be built on 123.09 acres purchased in 2006, near Cross Creek Ranch (a future 3,000 acre master-planned community east of Fulshear). [1] [2]
A third site has been identified north of Morton Ranch High School near the Bridgeland development (which will be served also by Cypress-Fairbanks ISD and Waller ISD, depending on the Bridgeland build-out).
[edit] Sports
Katy High School is the only high school in KISD that has won a football state championship. James E. Taylor High School has won the most tennis championships, most men's swimming titles, and is the only high school in the district to win a soccer state championship. Morton Ranch High School has one track and field title. Also, Cinco Ranch High School has won 2 consecutive state track championships. CRHS is also the home of the three time district champion and two time national champion table tennis team.
Football honors won at Katy High School:
- State football champions 1959
- Division I 5A state football champions 1997
- Undefeated Division II 5A state football champions 2000
- Division II 5A state football champions 2003
- Division II 5A state football runner-up 2005
[edit] Racial Statistics
- The face of Katy ISD is changing rapidly, with steady increases in minority, non-English-speaking, and low-income students. The percentage of white students has dropped from 80.6% in 1993-94 to 60.6% in 11 years; demographers project that KISD will be a majority-minority district within the next seven years. In the same time period, the percentage of low-income enrollment has almost doubled from 10.7% to 20.2%, while the Limited English-proficient enrollment has grown from 3.9% to 10.5%.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Katy ISD Web Site (Includes links to campus web sites)
- Racial Evidence
- Channel 2 KPRC Article on Lawsuit
- Copy of February 13th Lawsuit
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Cinco Ranch High School | Katy High School | James E. Taylor High School | Mayde Creek High School | Morton Ranch High School | |
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Arthur Miller Career Center | Cinco Ranch High School Controversies | Opportunity Awareness Center |
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