Jesse H. Jones High School
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Jesse H. Jones High School is a public secondary school located at 7414 Saint Lo in Houston, Texas.
Jones, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District.
Jones was named after Jesse Holman Jones.
The current principal administrator, Adele Rogers, was the principal of Holland Middle School prior to becoming the principal of Jones.
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[edit] History
Jones was established as an all-white high school. Starting with its desegregation in 1970, the student body increasingly became mostly African-American.
Jones had the Vanguard gifted and talented magnet program from fall 1977 to spring 2002. Parents of children in the program clashed with the administration of the school. The move that prompted the program's separation from Jones High School was the reinstatement of Lawrence Allen, a fired Jones principal who was reinstated several days later after protests from neighborhood residents, African-American Vanguard parents and Jones alumni [1]. When reinstated he only was in charge of the comprehensive program at Jones.
In 2002, the program was moved to a separate school, Carnegie Vanguard High School. As of 2006, Jones does not have a magnet program.
On September 15, 2005, Houston natives and New Orleans Hurricane Katrina evacuees fought in the school. The fight made national headlines [1].
In 2007 Johns Hopkins University referred to Jones as a "dropout factory" [2].
[edit] Student body
As of 2006, Jones' student body has 1,077 students and is majority African-American (58%) with a large Hispanic minority (40%). Whites and Asians each make up 1% of the student body. 83% of the students qualify for free and reduced lunch programs. [2]
[edit] School uniforms
Jones students are required to adhere to a strict dress code [3] allowing for oxford and polo shirts of any solid color and any style of trousers [4].
Prior to fall 2007, all students were required wear black or khaki bottoms.
PACE community students wore golden yellow or white shirts. TAC community students wore red shirts. GE students wore golden yellow, gray, or black shirts.
[edit] Neighborhoods zoned to Jones
Neighborhoods include South Park, Golfcrest, Greenway, Lum Terrace, and a portion of Santa Rosa.
The Long Drive Townhomes, a unit of public housing, is zoned to Jones.
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Ronnie Arrow - Head basketball coach at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
- Lawrence Allen, Jr - Texas State Board of Education member District 4
- Ron Franklin - Former Houston ISD board member and founding member of Franklin, Cardwell & Jones, P.C.
- Darrell Green - Professional American football player for the Washington Redskins
- Daniel Gibson - NBA Basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
- Michael W. Jones -HPD officer and founder of 'The Soul Patrol'
- Rosiland A. Jordan - White house correspondent for NBC News - Reporter for the NBC Nightly News and the Today Show
- Carmen Watkins - Senior Vice President of the Houston Area Urban League and Sunday Morning Live Talk show host at Majic 102 KMJQ-FM
- Elizabeth Watson - First female police chief of the Houston Police Department
- Alfred Williams - Professional American football player, drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in 1991
- Jo Beth Williams - Actress
[edit] Feeder patterns
Elementary schools that feed into Jones include Alcott, Bastian, Brookline, Cornelius, Golfcrest, Gregg, Kelso, and Seguín.
Attucks and Hartman Middle Schools feed into Jones.
[edit] References
- ^ "Tensions Overflow at Jones High School," Houston Chronicle, September 15, 2005
- ^ "Report points to 'dropout factories'," Houston Chronicle, October 31, 2007
[edit] External links
- Jones High School
- The Great Divide - A Houston Press article about Jones Vanguard's issues with the Jones Administration prior to leaving Jones High School.
- Jones Vanguard Alumni Page
Houston Independent School District
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| Alternative and magnet K-12 schools | T. H. Rogers |
| Alternative 7-12 schools | C.L.C. |
| High schools | Austin | Bellaire | Chávez | Davis | Furr | Sam Houston | Jones | Kashmere | Lamar | Lee | Madison | Milby Reagan | Scarborough | Sharpstown | Sterling | Waltrip | Washington | Westbury | Westside | Wheatley | Worthing | Yates |
| Alternative and magnet high schools | Carnegie Vanguard | Challenge Early College | DeBakey | East Early College Eastwood Academy | H.S.P.V.A. | Barbara Jordan | H.S.L.E.C.J. | Liberty (Newcomer) |
| Alternative 9-11 schools | Houston Academy for International Studies |
| K-8 schools | Gregory-Lincoln | Woodson |
| Alternative and magnet K-8 schools | Briarmeadow | Kandy Stripe | Rice |
| 1-8 schools | E.O. Smith |
| Middle schools | Attucks | Black | Burbank MS | Clifton | Cullen | Deady | Dowling | Edison | Fleming | Fondren MS | Fonville | Grady Hamilton | Hartman | Henry | Hogg | Holland | Jackson | Johnston | Key | Long | Lanier | Marshall | McReynolds Ortíz | Pershing | Pin Oak | Revere | Ryan | Sharpstown | Stevenson | Thomas | Welch | West Briar |
| Elementary schools | Briargrove | Longfellow | Neff | Poe | River Oaks | Roberts | Twain | Walnut Bend | West University | Others |
