Carter Career Center

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Howard P. Carter Career Center was a high school located in the Fifth Ward area of Houston, Texas, United States. The school, serving grades 6 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District.^[1] The school served as a vocational school and pregnant girls' school. Carter Career Center had many students who are single parents. It had a day-care center that is supported by corporations, the state, the federal government, and foundations.^[2] After the closure of Carter, the building housed the DeVry Advantage Academy.^[3]

History

The campus, built in 1913, originally housed McGowan Elementary School, a school for White children.^[4] The old E.O. Smith campus became the career center.^[5] On January 31, 1927 Wheatley High School first opened at 3415 Lyons Avenue in the former McGowan Elementary School building.^[6] In 1949 Wheatley moved into a new campus.^[5] E.O. Smith Education Center opened in the former Wheatley building in 1950. During the beginning of the 1979-1980 school year, E.O. Smith moved into its current facility.^[4] Carter Career Center opened in the McGowen/Wheatley/Smith former building.^[5]

In 2006, Kay On Going School's separate campus closed and the program moved into Carter Career Center.^[7]^[8]^[9] A $4.5 million addition, funded through a 2004 bond issue, was opened in August 2007. This includes culinary classrooms, high-tech laboratories, and a nursing school.^[10]

References

↑ "Howard Carter Career Center" Profile. Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on November 23, 2008.
↑ "Partners in education", Training & Development, 1 May 1992.
↑ "School Histories." Houston Independent School District. Accessed December 2, 2011.
↑ 4.0 4.1 "School History." E.O. Smith Education Center. Retrieved on November 10, 2010.
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Berryhill, Michael. "What's Wrong With Wheatley?." Houston Press. April 17, 1997. 2. Retrieved on March 31, 2009.
↑ "History." Wheatley High School. March 22, 2003. Retrieved on July 19, 2009.
↑ "School Histories: the Stories Behind the Names." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on September 24, 2008.
↑ Home Page. Carter Career Center. Retrieved on November 23, 2008.
↑ Fifth Ward, Houston from the Handbook of Texas Online
↑ "Career center annex expands options", Janese Heavin, Columbia Daily Tribune, 4 August 2007.

External links

Official site

v t e Houston Independent School District

Alternative and magnet K-12 schools	T. H. Rogers

Alternative 6-12 schools	Sharpstown Int'l

High schools	Austin Bellaire Chávez Davis Furr Sam Houston Jones Kashmere Lamar Lee Madison Milby North Forest Reagan Scarborough Sharpstown Sterling Waltrip Washington Westbury Westside Wheatley Worthing Yates

Alternative and magnet high schools	Carnegie Vanguard Challenge Early College DeBakey East Early College Eastwood Academy Houston Academy for International Studies H.S.E.P. H.S.P.V.A. Barbara Jordan H.S.L.E.C.J. Liberty (Newcomer) Mount Carmel Acad. North Houston Early College South Early College Y.M.C.P.A. Y.W.C.P.A.

K-8 schools	Gregory-Lincoln Woodson

Alternative and magnet K-8 schools	The Rice School

Middle schools	Key Lanier Long Pershing Pin Oak Ryan Others

Elementary schools	Harvard Kashmere Gardens Lantrip Longfellow River Oaks Roberts Twain Walnut Bend West University Others

Magnet elementary schools	MCLIMS

Former alternative 6-12 schools	C.L.C. Kay On-Going

Former high schools	San Jacinto

Former alternative high schools	Carter Career Center DeVry Advantage Academy Gulf Coast Trades Center Middle College

Former K-8 schools	E.O. Smith

Coordinates: 29°46′35″N 95°20′08″W / 29.7765°N 95.3355°W / 29.7765; -95.3355

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