Barbara Jordan High School
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Barbara Jordan High School for Careers is a public secondary school located at 5800 U.S. Route 59 (Eastex Freeway) in Houston, Texas, United States.
Jordan serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of the Houston Independent School District.
Jordan has two magnet programs: a program for pupils who will enter the workforce after graduation for high school, and a program for high school-aged deaf pupils.
The school was named after Barbara Jordan.
Jordan does not automatically take in students from the surrounding neighborhoods: those students are zoned to either Kashmere High School or Davis High School.
Some students in other parts of Houston ISD transfer to Jordan to escape home schools that do not have a good academic performance, causing the attendance figures of those schools to suffer. [1]
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[edit] Student body
During the 2004-2005 school year, Jordan had a total of 1,261 students [2].
- 60% were African-American
- 39% were Hispanic
- 1% was White American
- Less than 1% were Asian American
- Less than 1% were Native American
79% of the students qualified for free or reduced lunch.
[edit] School uniforms
Students are required to wear school uniforms [3].
[edit] Before Jordan
Jordan has no formal feeder patterns as it is a magnet school.
Most of the deaf students originate from the T. H. Rogers School, since that school has the deaf programs for Kindergarten through 8th grade.
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