Sharpstown High School

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Sharpstown High School is a secondary school located at 7504 Bissonnet in Houston, Texas, United States with a zip code of 77074.

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

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[edit] History

Sharpstown High School was originally in the campus now occupied by Sharpstown Middle School. In the 1970s Sharpstown High School moved into a new campus.

A 2003 state audit of HISD's performance caused more controversy. One of the district's most publicized accomplishments during the Rod Paige era was a dramatic reduction in dropout rates. When 16 secondary schools, including Sharpstown High School, were audited, it was found that most of the students who left school from those schools in 2000-2001 should have been counted as dropouts, but were not. [1] It was found that the administrators at Sharpstown deliberately changed the dropout rate at the school. The Sharpstown controversy resulted in a recommendation to label the entire HISD as "unacceptable." Former Sharpstown assistant principal Robert Kimball asserts that HISD coerced administrators at many schools to lie on dropout rates. HISD asserts that the fraud is only contained to Sharpstown, and that the false statistics at other schools were caused by confusion related to the state's system of tracking students who leave school.

According to the October 2006 "For Your Information" newsletter, Sharpstown was one of four high schools that took the most Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

[edit] Neighborhoods served

The school serves the community of Sharpstown, which was Houston's first-ever master planned community. In addition, Sharpstown High School also serves the communities of Robindell, Braeburn Glen, Braeburn Terrace, Braeburn Valley, Braeburn Valley West, Sharpstown Country Club Terrace, and portions of Fondren Southwest.

[edit] Youth criminal gangs

Charles Rotramel, the owner of the nonprofit program Youth Advocates, stated in a Houston Chronicle article that Lee High School, Westbury High School, and Sharpstown High School have suffered from the actions of youth criminal gangs [2].

One one internet bulletin board, various gangs stated that they "run" Sharpstown High School [3]; Terry Abbott, the Houston ISD spokesman, denied all such assertions.

[edit] Notable alumni

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[edit] Feeder patterns

All of Bonham, McNamara, and White Elementary Schools and parts of Herod, Milne, Neff, Sutton, and Valley West feed into Sharpstown High School.

Parts of Fondren, Long, Sharpstown, and Welch Middle Schools feed into Sharpstown High School. Since any student zoned to Long may attend Pin Oak Middle School, Pin Oak also feeds into Sharpstown High School.

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