Colored High

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Official nameBooker T. Washington Senior High School
PrincipalMark Bedell [1]
Location119 East 39th Street Houston, Texas
Enrollment1,072 (2005-2006)
Established1893 "Colored High"
MascotWar Eagle
School colorsRoyal Blue and 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.

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 education pioneer Booker T. Washington.

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 moved to its present day location in Independence Heights in 1959 [2].

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.

After Franklyn Wesley retired as principal, Houston ISD chose Mark Bedell, formerly an assistant principal at Worthing High School, as the principal [3]. Victor Keys, an assistant principal at Washington and an alumnus of Washington, will remain as an assistant principal. Some alumni of Washington High School and members of the community around the school protested the decision to hire Bedell because they wished for the district to hire Keys instead of Bedell.

Principal Franklyn Wesley passed away Tuesday night, September 11, 2007. He was 88.

Wesley served as the principal of the 930-student north Houston campus for more than 40 years. He worked as an educator for more than 65 years, spending all but a decade of those in HISD.

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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 66 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 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

  • Lawrence Marshall - (Houston ISD board member)
  • Jennifer Holliday - (actress)
  • Mercury Hayes - (Former NFL Wide Receiver)

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