Worthing High School (Houston, Texas)
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Evan Edward Worthing High School is a secondary school located in Houston, Texas.
Worthing serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of the Houston Independent School District.
Worthing has Houston ISD's magnet program for Mathematics, Science and Technology.
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[edit] History
On Friday, May 11, 2007, a 15-year old male student beat home economics teacher Vanesta Marshall on the left side of her face, from her eyebrow to her chin, in retaliation for sending him to the principal. The other students restrained the attacker, who was charged with felony assault of a public servant [1].
In 2007 Johns Hopkins University referred to Worthing as a "dropout factory" [1].
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Evan Edward Worthing was a Houston real-estate developer who set up a scholarship trust for African-American HISD students. A native of Michigan, he earned a mechanical engineering degree from Texas A&M University, where he was captain of the football team. Worthing High School was built in 1958.
[edit] Student body
Worthing had a total of 1,088 students during the 2005-2006 school year. [2]
The school is solidly African-American; 94% of Worthing students were African-American during that year. 5% of the students were Hispanic. 1% of the students was White American. Less than one percent of the students each were Asian American and Native American.
81% of Worthing students qualified for free or reduced lunch during that school year.
The school had 1,692 students during the 2000-2001 school year; the school during 2004-2005 had lost 30% of its student population size from the 2000-2001 school year.
[edit] Neighborhoods served by Worthing
Worthing High School serves Sunnyside, Sugar Valley, Cullen Estates, Brookhaven, a portion of South Acres, a portion of South Acres Estates, Cloverland, Regal Oaks [3] [4], a portion of Minnetex Place, City Park, and Skyview Forest [5] [6]. Hence, Worthing's logo is "Sunnyside Pride." Worthing also serves unincorporated portions of Harris County (such as Brunswick [7] [8] [9], Brunswick Lakes [10], Brunswick Meadows [11], and Morningside Place).
While portions of the city of Pearland are in the Worthing attendance zone, the portions have no residents.
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Cliff Branch - Former NFL football player for the Oakland Raiders
- Otis Taylor - Former NFL football player for the Kansas City Chiefs
- Mike Singletary - Former NFL football player for the Chicago Bears
- Lemuel Stinson - Former NFL football player for the Chicago Bears
- Cadillac Anderson - Former NBA Basketball player
- Terry Ellis - Founding member of 90's R&B girl group En Vogue
- LeMarcus Newman - (American football player for the San Francisco 49ers
- Brian Iwu (American football player for the Jacksonville Jaguars
- Chris Hudson (American football player for the Atlanta Falcons
- Wesley Weston - Houston Hip-Hop artist better known as Lil' Flip
- David Lattin - Former NBA Basketball Player for the San Francisco Warriors and starting Center on 1966 Texas Western Basketball Team.
- Quanell Jefferson Evans (Quanell X) [2]
[edit] Feeder patterns
Elementary schools that feed into Worthing include Almeda, Bastian, Fairchild, Law, Reynolds, Rhoads, Whidby, Woodson K-8 School's elementary program, and Young.
Middle schools that feed into Worthing include Attucks, Cullen, and Woodson K-8 School's middle school program.
[edit] References
- ^ "Report points to 'dropout factories'," Houston Chronicle, October 31, 2007
- ^ Patterson, Randall. "Would You Buy a Revolution From This Man?", Houston Press, 1997-04-03. Retrieved on 2007-03-24.
[edit] External links
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 |
