T. H. Rogers School

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T. H. Rogers School.

Thomas Horace Rogers School [1] is an alternative primary and secondary public school and part of the Houston Independent School District. The school is located at 5840 San Felipe in Houston, Texas, United States with a zip code of 77057, outside of the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8, in the Uptown Houston area.

T. H. Rogers serves gifted and talented students in the Vanguard program from kindergarten through 8th grade, deaf students from Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade, and multiply impaired students from age 3 through 12th grade. ^[1]

T. H. Rogers has a selective admission process for Vanguard students.

T. H. Rogers does not automatically take in students from the surrounding neighborhood; the surrounding neighborhood is zoned to Briargrove Elementary School^[2], Grady Middle School^[3], and Lee High School^[4] (with Lamar High School and Westside High School as options).

[edit] History

T. H. Rogers was originally a regular middle school that served Uptown area residents. In the 1980s T. H. Rogers was converted into a magnet school due to low enrollment. Uptown residents were rezoned to Revere Middle School, but complaints that stated that Revere was too far resulted in the re-opening of Grady as a middle school.

T. H. Rogers was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 1991-92 ^[5] and 2004 ^[6].

In fall 2007 two members of the T. H. Rogers Chess Team entered the international championships in Antalya, Turkey ^[7].

[edit] Student body

During the 2006-2007 school year, T.H. Rogers had a total of 290 students in its elementary school program.^[8]

• 32% were Asian American
• 29% were Hispanic
• 24% were White American
• 14% were African-American
• 1% was Native American

40% of its elementary students qualified for free or reduced lunch.

During the 2006-2007 school year, T.H. Rogers had a total of 446 students in its middle and high school programs.^[9]

• 32% were Asian American
• 27% were Hispanic
• 24% were White American
• 16% were African-American

No Native American students were enrolled during that year.

35% of its secondary students qualified for free or reduced lunch.

[edit] After T. H. Rogers

T. H. Rogers does not have a zoning boundary, as it serves students from all over Houston ISD.

The deaf program only serves up to the eighth grade at T.H. Rogers and the deaf program is continued for grades 9 through 12 at Barbara Jordan High School in Houston. The Vanguard students go to a variety of high schools; many Vanguard T. H. Rogers pupils go on to Bellaire's Bellaire High School ^[10].

Multiply-impaired students stay at T. H. Rogers for their entire K-12 careers.

[edit] Sports

T.H. Rogers has the following sports teams available:^[11]

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Soccer
• Swimming
• Volleyball
• Track
• Cross country

In addition the school has intramural sports teams^[11] which are played during lunch.^{[citation needed]} 7th and 8th graders are only allowed to participate except in baseball and intramural, which 6th grade is allowed.^{[citation needed]} Students must maintain an 80 average or above in all classes in order to remain on the team he/she is participating on.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• T. H. Rogers School
• T. H. Rogers PTO
• T. H. Rogers Chess Club
• Architecture page about T. H. Rogers' Natatorium (completed in 1997)