Phillis Wheatley High School is a secondary school located at 4900 Market Street in Houston, Texas, United States with a ZIP code of 77020. Nickname: Space 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. ... Official language(s) See: Languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 268,581 sq mi (695,622 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... Mr. ...

Wheatley, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. Wheatley, named after Phillis Wheatley, is located inside the 610 Loop in the Fifth Ward. Wheatley has one of the lowest enrollments of any zoned Houston ISD high school with 836 students during the 2004-2005 school year [1]. The Houston Independent School District is the largest public school system in Texas and the seventh-largest in the United States. ... A statue of Phillis Wheatley in Boston Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784), was the first African American female writer to be published in the United States. ... Interstate 610 is a freeway that forms a loop around the city of Houston, Texas. ... The Fifth Ward is the area of Houston, Texas north of Buffalo Bayou, east of U.S. Highway 59 and in the Inner Loop. ...

The Wheatley Child Development Center, a preschool and kindergarten, is located on the Wheatley High School campus. A kindergarten in Afghanistan. ...

Wheatley has a technology magnet program inherited from the closure of Middle College for Technology Careers in spring 2006; Wheatley's program began in fall 2006. Middle College for Technology Careers at Texas Southern University was a secondary school located in Houston, Texas. ...

History

Wheatley was first established at the old McGowan Elementary School building at 3415 Lyons Avenue on January 31, 1927. Wheatley started out as an all-African-American high school due to Jim Crow laws. Soon it had 2,600 students and sixty teachers and became one of the largest all-Black high schools in the United States. [2] Wheatley later moved to 4900 Market Street. January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... An African American (also Afro-American or Black American) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to sub-saharan Africa. ... Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and in force between 1876 and 1964 that required racial segregation, especially of African-Americans, in all public facilities. ...

By 1970 Wheatley desegregated since all of Houston ISD desegregated.

A new campus for Wheatley High School was under construction in the same plat of land as the first 4900 Market Street campus [3]. The construction ended in fall 2006 and the new campus opened [4]. The old 4900 Market Street campus was demolished.

The new campus' original budget was $35,000,000 United States dollars. Construction began in summer 2004 and ended during Summer 2006. The lead architect was ESPA Architecture, with the lead manager as Gilbane. ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ...

Neighborhoods served by Wheatley

Neighborhoods served by Wheatley include the Fifth Ward, Denver Harbor, St. Charles Square, and Pecan Park Terrace. The Fifth Ward is a historical political district ward of Houston, Texas (USA) east of downtown Houston. ...

Two Houston public housing complexes, Clayton Homes and Kelly Village, are zoned to Wheatley. In the United States and Canada, public housing is usually a block of purpose-built housing operated by a government agency, often simply referred to as projects. ...

A Houston mixed-income housing complex, Kennedy Place, is zoned to Wheatley.

School uniform

Wheatley students are required to wear school uniforms as of 2006. Several hundred students in uniform during an assembly at Nan Hua High School in Singapore. ... Several hundred students in uniform during an assembly at Nan Hua High School in Singapore. ...

Shirts must be golf shirts colored purple, white, or black. Tennis Shirt A tennis shirt, also called a polo shirt or a golf shirt, is a T-shaped shirt with a collar, (typically) two or three buttons down a slit below the collar, two small slits on the bottom of either side, and an optional pocket. ...

Trousers, shorts, and skirts must be khaki or blue docker-style. Belts are required and closed-toe shoes and tennis shoes are required.

Notable alumni

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• Harold V. Dutton - Texas State Representative of District 142
• Albert "Al" Edwards - Texas State Representative of District 146
• Arthur M. Gaines - Member of the Houston ISD school board
• Lester Hayes - Former professional American football player for the Oakland Raiders
• Barbara Jordan - First African-American U.S. Congresswoman from the South.
• El Franco Lee - Harris County Commissioner
• Mickey Leland - Member of the Texas House of Representatives until his death.
• Lonnie Bernard Rochon - First African-American disc jockey in Houston
• Joe Sample - Jazz musician
• (Martha) Algenita Scott-Davis - Former president of the National Bar Association
• Ruth Simmons - President of Brown University

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Feeder patterns

Elementary schools that feed into Wheatley include Bruce, Concord, Crawford, Dodson, Dogan, Eliot, N.Q. Henderson, Isaacs, A. Jones, R. Martinez, Pugh, Rusk, Scott, Scroggins, and E.O. Smith Education Center (1-8). E. O. Smith Education Center is a combined primary and secondary school located at 1701 Bringhurst in Houston, Texas, United States. ...

A. Jones will close after fall 2006 and students will be rezoned to Bruce.

Middle schools that feed into Wheatley include Fleming, McReynolds, and E.O. Smith Education Center (1-8). E. O. Smith Education Center is a combined primary and secondary school located at 1701 Bringhurst in Houston, Texas, United States. ...

External links

• Wheatley High School
• Wheatley Wildcats
• Wheatley Class of 1971
• Wheatley Class of 1993
• Wheatley Wildcats Forums at Proboards