Jesse H. Jones High School

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Jesse H. Jones High School is a public secondary school located at 7414 Saint Lo in Houston, Texas.

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

Jones was named after Jesse Holman Jones.

The principal administrator as of 2008, Adele Rogers, was the principal of Holland Middle School prior to becoming the principal of Jones.

[edit] History

Jones was established as an all-white high school. Starting with its desegregation in 1970, the student body increasingly became mostly African-American.

Jones had the Vanguard gifted and talented magnet program from fall 1977 to spring 2002. Parents of children in the program clashed with the administration of the school. The move that prompted the program's separation from Jones High School was the reinstatement of Lawrence Allen, a fired Jones principal who was reinstated several days later after protests from neighborhood residents, African-American Vanguard parents and Jones alumni.^[1] When reinstated he only was in charge of the comprehensive program at Jones.

In 2002, the program was moved to a separate school, Carnegie Vanguard High School. As of 2008, Jones does not have a magnet program.

On September 15, 2005, Houston natives and New Orleans Hurricane Katrina evacuees fought in the school. The fight made national headlines ^[2].

In 2007 Johns Hopkins University referred to Jones as a "dropout factory" where at least 40 percent of the entering freshman class does not make it to their senior year.^[3]

[edit] Student body

As of 2006, Jones' student body has 1,077 students and is majority African-American (58%) with a large Hispanic minority (40%). Whites and Asians each make up 1% of the student body. 83% of the students qualify for free and reduced lunch programs. ^[4]

[edit] Dress code

Jones students are required to adhere to a strict dress code allowing for oxford and polo shirts of any solid color and any style of trousers.^[5]

[edit] Neighborhoods zoned to Jones

Neighborhoods zoned to Jones^[6] include South Park, Golfcrest, Greenway, Lum Terrace, and a portion of Santa Rosa.

The Long Drive Townhomes, a unit of public housing, is zoned to Jones.

[edit] Notable Alumni

• Ron Franklin - Former Houston ISD board member and founding member of Franklin, Cardwell & Jones, P.C.^[7]
• Daniel Gibson - NBA Basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers.^[7]
• Darrell Green - Professional American football player for the Washington Redskins^[7]
• Rosiland A. Jordan - White house correspondent for NBC News - Reporter for the NBC Nightly News and the Today Show^[7]
• Alfred Williams - Professional American football player, drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in 1991^[7]
• Jo Beth Williams - Actress^[7]

[edit] Feeder patterns

Elementary schools that feed into Jones^[6] include:

• Golfcrest ^[8]
• Kelso ^[9]

Partial

• Alcott ^[10]
• Bastian ^[11]
• Brookline ^[12]
• Cornelius ^[13]
• Gregg^[14]
• Seguín^[15]

Portions of the attendance zones of Attucks Middle School^[16] and Hartman Middle School^[17] feed into Jones.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Jones High School
• The Great Divide - A Houston Press article about Jones Vanguard's issues with the Jones Administration prior to leaving Jones High School.
• Jones Vanguard Alumni Page