| Principal Administrator | Jeff Amerson |
| Grade levels | 6 - 12 |
| Founded | 1967 |
| School type | Public school (U.S.) |
| Religious affiliation | |
| Location | Houston, Texas, United States |
| Enrollment | 1,264 students (2005-2006 school year) |
| Campus surroundings | Urban |
| Mascot | Spartans |
| School colors | Green, Gold |
| Magnet | Partial: Architectural and Graphic Design |
| School Hours | 7:45 AM to 3:15 PM |
| Average Class Size | 24 |
Sharpstown International School is a secondary school in Houston, Texas located at 8330 Triola Lane with a ZIP code of 77036. Sharpstown Middle School, which serves grades 6 through 12, is part of the Houston Independent School District.
Sharpstown International School, which is located in the Sharpstown area, has an architectural and graphic design magnet program offering graphic designing classes to students who wish to become designers in the future. The school was named after its community.
Sharpstown International offers one foreign language class, Spanish, for high school credit and Introduction to Keyboarding class for high school credit. In the school year 2004–2005, all students who had the Introduction to Keyboarding class passed the class with a high school credit. Sharpstown hosts summer school for HISD. As of the 2006–2007 school year, Sharpstown offers Algebra for high school credit.
Sharpstown Middle has an Advanced Placement Program (PreAP/AP).
The school's mascot for its sports team is the "Viking".
Sharpstown Middle offers an annual Winterfest. Winterfest happens every first Tuesday of December with many games and activities both students and parents can enjoy throughout the night.
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Sharpstown International School was originally built in 1967 as a high school. It was named Sharpstown Junior/Senior High School housing grades 7–12. The area around the school grew quickly and, in the early 1970s, a new Sharpstown Senior High campus (serving grades 10–12) was built on Bissonnet Street. The older campus became Sharpstown Junior High, serving grades 7–9. At the beginning of the 1980–81 school year, Sharpstown Junior High became Sharpstown Middle School (grades 6–8), and Sharpstown Senior High became Sharpstown High School.
A gathering of students at a convenience store across from the school (which was often a meeting place for Sharpstown Middle School students) before 8:00 AM on Thursday, February 3, 1994 became a fight that lead to three Sharpstown Middle School students being hospitalized. A 15-year-old boy with a stab wound to the neck received surgery. A 15-year-old boy with a stab wound to his back and a 12-year-old with a cut on his forehead were also hospitalized. Police took one 15-year-old boy into custody and referred him to juvenile probation authorities.[1][2] The fight resulted in 500 students not attending classes the following day. On Monday, February 7 about 120 students did not attend classes.[3]
In the late 1990s, Sharpstown Middle was granted a magnet program, Architecture and Graphics. Since the early 1990s, Sharpstown has hosted "Winterfest," which was changed to "Evening with the Arts."
In 2011 Sharpstown Middle became a 6-12 school, Sharpstown International School.
Sharpstown is in the Sharpstown area of Houston. Sharpstown Middle is a few minutes away from the Sharpstown Center at Bellaire Boulevard and U.S. Highway 59 (the section next to the school is named the "Southwest Freeway"). Sharpstown is a few minutes from the Memorial Hermann Hospital Southwest on Beechnut and U.S. Highway 59.
Landsdale Park is east of Sharpstown where special school activities take place.
Sharpstown Middle School opened as a predominantly White middle school. As of 2006, Sharpstown Middle School is a majority Hispanic school.[4] During the 2005–2006 school year, Sharpstown had an enrollment of 1,264 students.
During the 2004–2005 school year, Sharpstown Middle School was 70% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 24% Black, and 1% White. More than 90% of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Sharpstown International School serves the western half of Sharpstown.
Houston ISD provides school buses for students who live more than two miles away from the school or who have major obstacles between their houses and the school.
Sharpstown International School has a mandatory school uniform policy.
The Texas Education Agency specified that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to Lamar may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform [2]; parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons for philosophical objections.
Elementary schools that feed into Sharpstown International include Neff and White.[5][6][7]
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