Katy School 1899-1909 Elementary School 1909-1927

Katy High School building 1909-1947

Elementary School addition 1927-1951

The Katy Independent School District is a public school district based in Katy, Fort Bend County, Texas, (USA). The district enrolls over 50,000 students. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... School districts are a form of special-purpose district in the United States (amongst some other places) which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools. ... Katy is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. ... Official website: www. ...

The district serves 181 square miles (469 km²) in parts of Harris County, Fort Bend County and Waller County. Most of the district lies within the boundaries of the City of Houston, the City of Katy or the City of Fulshear or their municipalities' extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ). Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. ... Official website: www. ... Waller County is a county located in the state of Texas. ... “Houston” redirects here. ... Katy is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. ... Fulshear is a town located in Fort Bend County, Texas. ... The term township is used to denote a lower level territorial subdivision. ... Extraterritorial jurisdiction or ETJ is the legal ability of a government to exercise authority beyond its normal boundaries. ...

All residential areas of the district are assigned to an elementary school, a junior high school, and a high school by subdivision.

History

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1898: The Katy Common School District (CSD) was formed to serve the town and surrounding communities. A high school and elementary school were established in a home at Avenue A and Sixth Street in Katy. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Prose is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its closer resemblance to the patterns of everyday speech. ...

1899: The city constructed a wooden one-room school house at the site of the current Katy Elementary School's playground, the school served all grade levels.

1900: The Galveston Hurricane damaged the building, but repairs were made, and classes continued at the home of W.H. Featherston. The first class graduated from Katy High School (10th Grade).

1909: A permanent brick building was constructed adjacent and south of the wooden building, for the secondary grade levels.

1918: The Katy Independent School District (ISD) was established by voters, by divorcement election from the City of Katy, and incorporated the common school districts in Dishman, Schlipf, Sills and a school for African-Americans.

1927: Improvements to the 1909 building were competed, included indoor plumbing and heat. The wooden school was dismantled and sold, and at the site a new classroom addition was constructed for the elementary grades, a combination auditorium and cafeteria were included.

1931: The size of Katy ISD was increased to 126 square miles (326 km²), when KISD annexed two small common school districts at the South Mayde and Stockdick communities. Two school buses purchased, one transported students in from Waller County and the other from Harris County. A female community member drove her vehicle daily and picked-up six students from the Fort Bend County portion of the school district.

1934: High school age students from Brookshire began attending Katy High School. A gymnasium was erected (at the site of the current Katy Elementary School cafeteria), so that basketball and volleyball could be played at night under light, instead of on open courts on Friday afternoons.

1935: A larger wooden-school house was completed on Danover Street for African-American students.

1939: First football team established at Katy High School. Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

1941: 17 seniors graduate from Katy High School. Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

1943: First Katy Rodeo held at Avenue D and 10th Street, northwest of the Katy school buildings.

1947: Construction was completed of the new Katy High School site on Highway 90 in Katy (the building also housed Katy ISD's seventh and eight graders). High school students from the Addicks Independent School District (ISD) joined Brookshire high school students attending Katy High.

1951: A new elementary school opened next to Katy High School (currently serves as Katy High School's West Campus). The 1909 building and the 1927 elementary addition was razed, only the 1934 "Old Gym" was left standing and used as a community center, storage, junior high basketball practice and for the school district offices. The original school bell and the 1927 building plaque was stored at the "Old Gym".

1952: A Band hall and vocational building was constructed, south of the Katy High School building. Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

1953: Odessa Kilpatrick School was completed on Danover Street, to serve African-American students in the district, this facility replaced the 1935 wooden school house on the same site. The district began transporting African-American students above the eighth grade to Ralph Bunche School in Brookshire, this arrangement would continue until desegregation was completed.

1955: Katy High School holds graduation for 40 seniors. Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

1959: The movie picture "Tomboy and the Champ" was filmed in Katy and at the "Old Gym".

1960: Students from Brookshire began attending high school in the newly formed Royal Independent School District. A total of 53 graduate from Katy High School. Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

1961: Voters in Katy ISD and in the Addicks community, agreed to consolidation of the defunct Addicks ISD with Katy ISD, and the present boundaries of the district were increased by 55 square miles (142 km²).

1962: During the Cuban Missile Crisis the 1934 "Old Gym" was used as headquarters for the local civil defense organization.

1964: New agriculture and rodeo arena constructed behind Katy High School.

1965: A new Katy Elementary was completed at the site of the district's first permanent school along with a full-service cafeteria, the building next to Katy High School was renamed Katy Junior High and served sixth through eighth grades. The administration office was located at Katy High School, the staff included the superintendent, business director and three clerical workers. Bus Barn completed on Franz Road (current West Transportation Center).

1968: A new Addicks Elementary School, replaces the former Addicks ISD building (name changed to Wolfe Elementary in the 1980's).

1970: Katy ISD completed desegregation of its schools. Odessa Kilpatrick School used to house Katy Elementary's fifth grade and the district's six graders.

1972: New administration building was completed on South Stadium Drive, also West Memorial Elementary School was finished in the new West Memorial subdivision.

1976: District's sixth graders moved back to junior high schools, when West Memorial Junior High opens.

1977: The capacity of Katy High School was expanded from 800 to 1600. Also, the Katy ISD school board approved a drill team for the 1977-1978 school year that would be called the "Red Brigade" (students and advisors, prior to the start of the school year, would change the name to "Bengal Brigade"). Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

May, 1977: 195 seniors from Katy High School walked-across the stage at Tiger Field. Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

1978: Zelma Hutsell Elementary, Memorial Parkway Elementary and Bear Creek Elementary Schools open, fifth graders moved from Kilpatrick school to elementary schools. Alternative education program set-up at Kilpatrick school.

May, 1979: 296 seniors graduated from Katy High School. Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

1979: James E. Taylor High School opens to 9th and 10th graders.

1980: Bond election passed. Mayde Creek Junior High and Cimarron Elementary schools open.

1981: Nottingham Country Elementary and Winborn Elementary Schools open. A new band hall and improvements at Katy Junior High were completed. The last varsity football game was played at Tiger Field.

1982: Katy ISD Stadium opened for varsity football games (name later changed to Jack Rhodes Memorial Stadium). Alternative education program moved to new classroom facility, next to stadium (Kilpatrick School used as storage facility). Memorial Parkway Junior High and Sundown Elementary School opens.

1983: Mayde Creek Elementary School opens.

1984: Mayde Creek High School opens and new bus barn completed north of the school (current East Transportation Center). The Katy High School tiger-head logo was designed, and replaced the simple letters "K T". Mayde Creek High School is a public high school located on Groschke Road in unincorporated Harris County, Texas and is part of the Katy Independent School District. ... Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

1985: At Katy High School the weight room and field house was expanded. Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

1988: The "Old Gym" was torn-down at Katy Elementary, in anticipation of construction of a new combination gym and cafeteria, as part of the renovated and expanded Katy Elementary.

1988: James E. Taylor High School seniors were the last to graduate from Rhodes Stadium (future KISD graduations ceremonies would be held at the Astro Arena in Houston.

1989: Work completed at Katy Elementary, a new office area and library was added. Historical items from the original buildings were incorporated with the reconstruction, such as the 1909 school bell placed over the entrance of the school, and the 1927 building plaque displayed in the front entry way.

1989: Galbow Elementary and Pattison Elementary Schools open.

1991: T.W. McDonald Junior High opens.

1993: Fielder Elementary open.

1994: Bond election passed.

1995: New Katy Jr. High opens, former building converted to Katy High School West Campus (west campus accomidated the largest entering freshman class in KHS history). Hayes Elementary School opens. Leonard Merrell appointed superintendent of schools. A "new addition" of classrooms was completed on Avenue C at Katy Elementary.

1996: Bond election passed. Beck Junior High opens.

1997: McRoberts Elementary School opens.

May, 1998: 551 seniors graduated from KHS at the Astro Hall in Houston.

1998: Alexander Elementary School opens. A new library and hallway addition, completed between the main and west campus at Katy High School. Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

May, 1999: Making history, the largest graduating class from Katy High School, with 660 seniors walked across the podium at the Astro Hall. Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

1999: Bond election passed. Cinco Ranch High School opens (8th graders from Beck Jr. High, temporarily housed at CRHS for one school-year due to overcrowding).

2000: McMeans Junior High, Creech Elementary and Williams Elementary open.

2001: Cinco Ranch Junior High opens.

2002: Bond election passed. Students from West Memorial Elementary temporarily used Cinco Ranch High School due to mold issues at the campus. Cinco Ranch High School is a secondary school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas that serves grades 9 through 12 as part of the Katy Independent School District. ...

2003: Morton Ranch Junior High opens.

2004: Morton Ranch High School, Beckendorff Junior High, Exley Elementary, Franz Elementary, Rhoads Elementary and Rylander Elementary Schools open. A new Katy Rodeo arena replaced old facilities south of the administration building and new agriculture barns finished north of Katy. Both sites named for former ag teachers in Katy, L.D. Robinson and Gerald Young. Katy ISD Law Enforcement and District Maintenance building open adjacent to Morton Ranch High School. Preforming Arts Center and renovations completed at Katy High School, James E. Taylor High School, Mayde Creek High School, and Cinco Ranch High School. A third addition at KHS increased capacity to over 3,000. Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ... James E. Taylor High School, also known as Katy Taylor High School, is a public high school in Harris County, Texas, near the city of Katy. ... Mayde Creek High School is a public high school located on Groschke Road in unincorporated Harris County, Texas and is part of the Katy Independent School District. ... Cinco Ranch High School is a secondary school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas that serves grades 9 through 12 as part of the Katy Independent School District. ...

2005: Seven Lakes High School opens, Hutsell Elementary expansion completed. Merrell Center opens, and holds high school graduations ceremonies (first held inside the district since 1988).

2006: On February 13, several parents filed a lawsuit against KISD regarding religion. They accused KISD of religious discrimination in several incidents. KISD has released an official statement.

2006: In May, a bond election failed

2006: In August, Griffin Elementary School opens.

2006: In November, a bond election passed, providing for construction of three elementary schools and two junior high schools, along with improvements at twenty-four of the districts facilities. Funds are also provided for updated technical equipment, buses, temporary buildings and future school sites.

May, 2007: 474 seniors completed their education at KHS.

2007: Alton Frailey becomes the superintendent of Katy I.S.D., upon the retirement of Leonard Merrell. Stephens Elementary and Woodcreek Elementary open.

2007: On July 5, 2007, the Houston Press posted an article about 12-year-old Shelby Sendelbach, a Mayde Creek Junior High School student who wrote "I Love Alex" on a school gymnasium bench with a marker pen and received three months of disciplinary school assignment as a punishment. The article criticized the district's response and stated that teachers in Japan see the case as the wrong method of punishment [1] [2]. Other news sources from inside and outside the United States followed with media coverage [3] [4][5][6] [7] [8] [9] [10], making the Sendelbach case into a cause célèbre opposing excessive school discipline. ABC News Good Morning America [11] and NHK [12] interviewed Sendelbach. On July 18, the Katy ISD school board reversed the punishment of Sendelbach [13]. is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The Houston Press is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Houston, Texas. ... Look up cause célèbre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... ABC News Special Report ident, circa 2006 ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. ... Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. ... NHK Broadcasting Center in Shibuya, Tokyo NHK (, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai), or the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, is Japans public broadcaster. ... is the 199th day of the year (200th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section should be merged with board of education A school board (or school committee) is an elected council that helps determine educational policy in a small regional area, such as a city, state, or province. ...

Facilities

High Schools

• Katy High School (Katy) (Est. 1898, present location 1947)
• James E. Taylor High School (Unincorporated Harris County) (Est. 1979)
• Mayde Creek High School (Unincorporated Harris County) (Est. 1984)
• Cinco Ranch High School (Unincorporated Fort Bend County) (Est. 1999)
• Morton Ranch High School (Unincorporated Harris County) (Est. 2004)
• Seven Lakes High School (Unincorporated Fort Bend County) (Est. 2005)

Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ... James E. Taylor High School, also known as Katy Taylor High School, is a public high school in Harris County, Texas, near the city of Katy. ... Mayde Creek High School is a public high school located on Groschke Road in unincorporated Harris County, Texas and is part of the Katy Independent School District. ... Cinco Ranch High School is a secondary school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas that serves grades 9 through 12 as part of the Katy Independent School District. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Seven Lakes High School is a school located in unincorporated Fort Bend County, Texas in the vicinity of Katy-Gaston Road and Fry Road intersection in Land Use Zone 74. ...

Junior High schools

• Katy Junior High School (Katy) (Est. 1965 next to Katy High School, present location 1995)
• West Memorial Junior High School (Unincorporated Harris County) (Est. 1976)
• Mayde Creek Junior High School (Unincorporated Harris County) (Est. 1980)
• Memorial Parkway Junior High School (Unincorporated Harris County) (Est. 1982)
• T.H. McDonald Junior High School (Unincorporated Harris County) (Est. 1991)
• Rodger and Ellen Beck Junior High School (Unincorporated Fort Bend County) (Est. 1996)
• Garland McMeans Junior High School (Unincorporated Harris County) (Est. 2000)
• Cinco Ranch Junior High School (Unincorporated Fort Bend County) (Est. 2001)
• Morton Ranch Junior High School (Unincorporated Harris County) (Est. 2003)
• Beckendorff Junior High School (Unincorporated Fort Bend County) (Est. 2004)

Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

Elementary schools

• Katy Elementary School (Katy) (Est. 1898, moved next to Katy High School 1951, present location 1965)
• Kilpatrick Elementary School (Uninc. Fort Bend County) (Est. 1952 on Danover Street, closed 1978, present location 2003)
• Maurice L. Wolfe Elementary School (Houston) (Est. 1961 as Addicks Elementary, current building 1968)
• West Memorial Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 1974)
• Bear Creek Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 1978)
• Zelma Hutsell Elementary School (Katy) (Est. 1978)
• Memorial Parkway Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 1978)
• Cimarron Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 1980)
• Nottingham Country Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 1981)
• Diane Winborn Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 1981)
• Sundown Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 1982)
• Mayde Creek Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 1983)
• Loraine T. Golbow Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 1989)
• Hazel S. Pattison Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 1989)
• Edna Mae Fielder Elementary School (Uninc. Fort Bend County) (Est. 1993)
• Jeanette Hayes Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 1995)
• Polly Ann McRoberts Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 1997)
• Roosevelt Alexander Elementary School (Uninc. Fort Bend County) (Est. 1998)
• Sue Creech Elementary School (Uninc. Fort Bend County) (Est. 2000)
• James E. Williams Elementary School (Uninc. Fort Bend County) (Est. 2000)
• Robert E. King Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 2001)
• Betty and Jean Schmalz Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 2001)
• Jo Ella Exley Elementary School (Uninc. Fort Bend County) (Est. 2004)
• Franz Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 2004)
• Rhoads Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 2004)
• Rylander Elementary School (Uninc. Fort Bend County) (Est. 2004)
• Michael Griffin Elementary School (Uninc. Fort Bend County) (Est. 2006)
• Stephens Elementary School (Uninc. Harris County) (Est. 2007)
• WoodCreek Elementary School (Katy) (Est. 2007)

Katy High School is a secondary school located in Katy, Texas and serves grades 9 through 12. ...

Support Facilities

• Administration Building
• Leonard E. Merrell Center
• Rhodes Stadium
• Transportation Center [East] (adjacent to Mayde Creek High School)
• Transportation Center [West] (adjacent to Katy Junior High School)
• Gerald Young Agricultural Science Center
• L. D. Robinson Pavilion & Rodeo Arena
• Katy ISD Law Enforcement Center (adjacent to Morton Ranch High School)
• Katy ISD Storage Annex (Danover Street, former Kilpatrick Elementary)

The Leonard E. Merrell Center, also known just as the Merrell Center, is a 5,600-seat multi-purpose arena in Katy, Texas. ...

Alternative Education Campus

• Arthur Miller Career & Technology Center
• Opportunity Awareness Center
• Martha Raines/School of Choice

Future Schools

The Katy Independent School District is a fast growing school district in Texas, and the district has a staff architect. KISD has funding authorization for two new junior high schools, one located north of Mayde Creek High School and the other at Wood Creek Reserve south of Katy, along with three elementary schools (one adjacent to Morton Ranch High School and the other two west of Cinco Ranch. For other uses, see Architect (disambiguation). ... Mayde Creek High School is a public high school located on Groschke Road in unincorporated Harris County, Texas and is part of the Katy Independent School District. ... Katy is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Cinco Ranch is a census-designated place and master-planned, unincorporated community located in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston within Fort Bend County and Harris County, Texas. ...

Katy I.S.D. has done an extensive study and maintains and updates a District Growth and Facilities Planning Study.[14]

The school district owns three large pieces of property for future high schools, one is located at Katy-Gaston Road and Greenbusch Road and is master-planned for a football stadium, another future high school site is located on 140-acres at the southwest corner of Peek Road and Stockdick School Road, and a third high school site is located on 123.09 acres, purchased in 2006, near Cross Creek Ranch (a future 3,000 acre (12 km²) master-planned community east of Fulshear). [15] [16] [17] [18] Look up Football in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Four additional junior high schools and 13 more elementary are planned until the district is built-out, currently expected around 2016; however, the new school sites are only speculated until land and funding is authorized from bond elections. An election is a decision making process whereby people vote for preferred political candidates or parties to act as representatives in government. ...

Enrollment

1934- 263 Students

1954- 615 Students

1961- 727 Students

1971- 1,671 Students

1976- 4,244 Students

1980- 9,762 Students

1981- 10,865 Students

1985- 15,455 Students

1995- 25,336 Students

1996- 26,766 Students

1997- 28,230 Students

1998- 30,126 Students

1999- 32,338 Students

2000- 33,474 Students

2001- 37,195 Students

2002- 39,867 Students

2003- 41,687 Students

2004- 44,483 Students

2005- 47,788 Students

2006- 50,585 Students

2007- 53,634 Students [19]

Demographics

The face of Katy ISD is changing rapidly, with steady increases in minority, non-English-speaking, and low-income students.

The percentage of white students has dropped from 80.6% in 1993-94 to 60.6% in 1995; demographers project that KISD will be a majority-minority district by the 2010-2011 school year. ^{[citation needed]}

Percentages of low-income students has increased from 10.7% to 20.2%, while the Limited English-proficient enrollment has grown from 3.9% to 10.5%, by 2007. ^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of school districts in Texas

List of school districts in Texas in alphabetical order A Abbott Independent School District Abernathy Independent School District Abilene Independent School District Academy Independent School District Adrian Independent School District Agua Dulce Independent School District Alamo Heights Independent School District Alba-Golden Independent School District Albany Independent School District Aldine...

External links

• Katy ISD Web Site (Includes links to campus web sites)
• Racial Evidence
• Channel 2 KPRC Article on Lawsuit
• Copy of February 13th Lawsuit

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