Northside High School (Houston)

Northside High School

Northside High School, formerly Jefferson Davis High School, is a secondary school located at 1101 Quitman in the Near Northside neighborhood of Northside, Houston, Texas with a ZIP code of 77009. The school was previously named after Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America, ^[1]

The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. The mascot of Northside is the Panther.^[2]

The school also has a Hotel and Restaurant Management magnet program.

The HISD board voted to give the school its current name in 2016.^[3]

History

In 1993, project GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams) was founded at Davis High. The program provides scholarships to students as incentive to complete high school and enroll in college.^[4]

Neighborhoods served by Northside

Northside High School serves^[5] Near Northside, Northside Village, Irvington, Lindale Park, a portion of the Fifth Ward,^[6] and most of Downtown Houston. The school also serves Irvington Place, a public housing unit and Fulton Village, a mixed-income unit.

Student body

During the 2006-2007 school year, 1,577 students were enrolled at Davis.^[7]

About 85% of the students were Hispanic American, and 12% of the students were African American. Also, 2% of the students were White American. Less than one percent of the students were Asian American. Less than one percent of the students was Native American. About 80% of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Extracurricular activities

In 2015 the Mariachi Pantera had 28 students. It travels out of state. The Pantera had issues with lack of interest in 2014 but had recovered the following year.^[8]

Feeder patterns

Elementary schools feeding into Davis include:^[9]

• Looscan^[10]
• C. Martinez^[11]
• Sherman^[12]

Partial:

• Blackshear^[13]
• Crawford^[14]
• Crockett^[15]
• Gregory-Lincoln Education Center^[16] (Gregory-Lincoln is a K-8 but only its elementary boundary is partly zoned to Davis)
• Herrera^[17]
• Jefferson^[18]
• Ketelsen^[19]
• Ross^[20]
• Travis^[21]

All of Marshall Middle School's attendance zone is within the Davis High School attendance zone.^[22]

Middle schools that have portions of their attendance boundaries zoned to Davis include:

• Burbank^[23]
• Fleming^[24]
• Gregory-Lincoln MS^[25]
• Key^[26]

Notable alumni

• Frank Carswell - former Detroit Tigers outfielder and minor-league manager^[27]
• Carl Crawford - Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder^[28]
• James DeAnda - Former federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas^[28]
• Gene Green - Democratic Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives^[28]
• Ricardo "Rocky" Juarez - A 1999 World Champion Boxer and Olympic silver medalist.^[28]
• Slater N. Martin - NBA Basketball player and Hall-of-Famer. He played for the Minneapolis Lakers (now Los Angeles Lakers), New York Knickerbockers (now New York Knicks), and the St. Louis Hawks (now Atlanta Hawks).^[28]
• Kenny Rogers - country singer^[28]
• Jesse Valdez - Participant in the 1972 Olympic Games^[28]

See also

References

Further reading

• Campos, Wendy, Cecilia Cruz, Stephen Martin, and Xochitl Vandiver-Rodríguez. "Jefferson Davis High School: The Past and the Present." history paper (for History 3394). May 17, 1994. In the possession of Professor Guadalupe San Miguel of the University of Houston. San Miguel cited the paper in his book, Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston.

External links

• Davis High School

Coordinates: 29°47′00″N 95°21′31″W / 29.78342°N 95.3585°W / 29.78342; -95.3585