| | Official name | Booker T. Washington Senior High School | | Principal | Franklin D. Wesley (1965- present) | | Location | 119 E. 39th St. Houston, Texas Nickname: Bayou City Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Counties Harris County Fort Bend County Montgomery County Mayor Bill White Area - City 1,558 km² (601. ...
| | Enrollment | 1,072 (2005-2006) | | Established | 1893 "Colored High" | | Mascot | War Eagle | | School colors | Royal Blue and 24k Gold | Booker T. Washington High School is a secondary school located at 119 East 39th Street in Houston, Texas with a zip code of 77018. 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
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Nickname: Bayou City Location in the state of Texas Coordinates: Counties Harris County Fort Bend County Montgomery County Mayor Bill White Area - City 1,558 km² (601. ...
Booker T. Washington, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. Booker T. Washington has a neighborhood program that serves neighborhoods outside of the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8 in the northwest part of Houston, including the neighborhoods of Independence Heights, Highland Heights, and most of Acres Homes. The school was named after Booker T. Washington. The Houston Independent School District is the largest public school system in Texas and the seventh-largest in the United States. ...
Interstate 610 is a freeway that forms a loop around the city of Houston, Texas. ...
Sam Houston Tollway, also Sam Houston Parkway and Beltway 8, is a Texas state highway located in Houston. ...
Independence Heights known to many nowdays as simply Studewood was originally northeast of Houston, TX in an area now within the Houston city limits, bounded on the south by Thirtieth Avenue, on the north by Crosstimbers, on the west by Yale Street, and on the east by Airline Drive in...
Acres Homes, Texas is a wooded area northwest of the city of Houston. ...
Booker T. Washington Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was a Mulatto-American political leader, educator and author. ...
The High School For Engineering Professions is located in the Booker T. Washington campus.
History
The school was established in 1893 in Houston's Fourth Ward as Colored High School. It later moved to its present day location in Independence Heights. In 1964, the original chapter of the GENTS was founded at Booker T. by Mr. Langston Knowles, GENTS is now present at over 29 different Houston area high schools. Booker T. Washington was desegregated in 1970. Houston ISD's first magnet program, High School For Engineering Professions, was established in 1975 at Booker T. Washington.
Transportation Houston ISD provides school bus transportation to students who live more than two miles away from the school. Students zoned to the school and students who are enrolled in the magnet program are eligible for bus transportation.
The METRO city bus line also operates the 8 South Main/Yale bus line, which stops at the intersection of Yale Street and Cockerel Street.
Feeder patterns All of Allen, Burrus, Hohl, Kennedy, and Wesley Elementary schools feed into Washington, and parts of Garden Oaks, Highland Heights, Osborne, and Roosevelt feed into Washington.
Most of M.C. Williams Middle School and only small parts of Black Middle School and Alexander Hamilton Middle School feed into Booker T. Washington.
Some students who were enrolled at Clifton Middle School choose to attend Washington High School.
Notable alumni Jennifer Holliday (born October 19, 1960 in Riverside, Texas) is a R&B and dance music singer and actress who gained fame for her portrayal of Effie White in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls. ...
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