Barbara Jordan High School

Coordinates: 29°48′43″N 95°19′57″W / 29.8119°N 95.3325°W / 29.8119; -95.3325

Barbara Jordan High School for Careers

Barbara Jordan High School for Careers is a public secondary school located at 5800 Eastex Freeway (U.S. Highway 59) in Houston, Texas, United States.

Jordan serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of the Houston Independent School District.

Jordan has a program for pupils who will enter the workforce after graduation for high school. It previously had a program for high school-aged deaf pupils.

The school was named after Barbara Jordan.

Jordan does not automatically take in students from the surrounding neighborhoods: those students are zoned to either Kashmere High School or Davis High School.

Some students in other parts of Houston ISD transfer to Jordan to escape home schools that do not have a good academic performance, causing the attendance figures of those schools to suffer.

History

Barbara Jordan High School was originally Houston Technical Institute up until 1979. Houston Technical Institute split its job oriented magnet program between two schools, Milby High School and Barbara Jordan High School For Careers (original name). The 1979/80 class was the last graduating class of Houston Technical Institute. The 1980/81 class was the first graduating class of Barbara Jordan High School For Careers.

During the 1984-1985 school year, the percentages of Fs at 23 of 26 HISD high school campuses decreased in the spring semester because of the state-implemented No Pass No Play rule, which requires students in high school athletic programs to attain passing grades. At Jordan and Sterling High School, the percentages of Fs remained the same.^[1]

In 2011 Andria Schur, the principal of Barbara Jordan, said that she was closing the auto-collision program at Jordan at the end of the 2010-2011 school year. Schur said that this was due to state budget cuts and because the school was "trying to shift to more 21st-century jobs." Schur suggested that students in the program instead enroll in Advanced Placement courses in art history and studio art.^[2] According to Mr. Gonzales, the teacher of the auto-collision program, if the program is eliminated, there will be no schools in HISD that will offer it.^[3] Gayle Fallon, the president of the Houston Federation of Teachers, said that HISD was trying to push the vocational programs into the domain of Houston Community College.^[2] Gonzales and some of his students attended an HISD board meeting, asking the board to make the steps to have the program saved.^[4] As of 2011 the school continues to offer automobile collision/repair courses.^[5]

Student body

During the 2004-2005 school year, Jordan had a total of 1,261 students .

60% were African-American
39% were Hispanic
1% was White American
Less than 1% were Asian American
Less than 1% were Native American

79% of the students qualified for free or reduced lunch.

As of 2015 many students zoned to Kashmere High School instead attend Barbara Jordan.^[6]

School uniforms

Students are required to wear school uniforms .

Before Jordan

Jordan has no formal feeder patterns as it is a magnet school.

When it had the deaf program most of the deaf students originated from the T. H. Rogers School, since that school has the deaf programs for Kindergarten through 8th grade.

References

↑ Hunt, Dianna. "Fewer failing grades since start of no-pass rule." Houston Chronicle. Saturday June 29, 1985. Section 1, Page 22. Retrieved on December 8, 2011.
1 2 Downing, Margaret. "Efficiences." Houston Press. Wednesday April 13, 2011. 1. Retrieved on April 28, 2011.
↑ Downing, Margaret. "Efficiences." Houston Press. Wednesday April 13, 2011. 2. Retrieved on April 28, 2011.
↑ Downing, Margaret. "It's 'Big Girl, Big Boy Time,' HISD's Paula Harris Says." Houston Press. Friday April 15, 2011. Retrieved on May 4, 2011.
↑ "Careers: Automotive Collision and Repair." Barbara Jordan High School. Retrieved on November 14, 2011.
↑ Michels, Patrick. "Houston's Learning Curve." Politico. May 21, 2015. p. 3 (Archive). Retrieved on July 20, 2015.

External links

HISD Student Among This Year’s Barbara Jordan Media Award Winners

Houston Independent School District

Alternative and magnet K-12 schools	T. H. Rogers

6-12 schools	Jane Long Academy (middle school zoned, high school not zoned)

Alternative 6-12 schools	Leland Sharpstown Int'l Y.W.C.P.A.

High schools	Austin Bellaire Chávez Davis Furr Sam Houston Kashmere Lamar Lee Madison Milby North Forest 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 Energy Institute H.A.I.S. H.S.E.P. H.S.P.V.A. Jones Futures Academy Barbara Jordan H.S.L.E.C.J. Liberty (Newcomer) Mount Carmel Acad. North Houston Early College South Early College

K-8 schools	Gregory-Lincoln Woodson

Alternative and magnet K-8 schools	The Rice School

Middle schools	Key Lanier Pershing Pin Oak Others

Alternative middle schools	BCM Academy at Ryan Las Américas Newcomer School

Elementary schools	Cornelius Harvard Kashmere Gardens Lantrip River Oaks Walnut Bend Others

Alternative elementary schools	Arabic Immersion Mandarin Chinese Immersion

Former alternative 6-12 schools	C.L.C. Kay On-Going

Former high schools	San Jacinto

Former alternative high schools	Carter Career Center DeVry Advantage Academy Gulf Coast Trades Center (no longer affiliated with HISD) Middle College

Former K-8 schools	E.O. Smith

Former middle schools	Ryan

Literature	Brown, Not White Make Haste Slowly

High schools in the City of Houston

Houston Independent School District

Zoned schools	Austin Bellaire (Bellaire) Chávez J. Davis Furr Sam Houston Kashmere Lamar Lee Madison Milby North Forest Reagan Scarborough Sharpstown Sterling Waltrip Washington Westbury Westside Wheatley Worthing Yates

Magnet/Alternative schools	Carnegie Vanguard Challenge Early College DeBakey East Early College Eastwood Academy Energy Institute H.A.I.S. H.S.E.P. H.S.P.V.A. Jones Futures Academy Barbara Jordan H.S.L.E.C.J. Leland Liberty (Newcomer) Mount Carmel Acad. North Houston Early College T.H. Rogers Sharpstown Int'l South Early College Y.W.C.P.A.

Public schools not in Houston ISD

Aldine ISD	Aldine Carver B. Davis (Unincorporated) Eisenhower MacArthur (Unincorporated) Nimitz (Unincorporated) Victory Early College (magnet)

Alief ISD	Elsik Hastings Taylor (Unincorporated) Kerr (Magnet) (Unincorporated)

Clear Creek ISD	Clear Lake Clear Brook (Unincorporated)

Cypress-Fairbanks ISD	Cypress Creek (Unincorporated) Cypress Ridge (Unincorporated) Jersey Village (Jersey Village)

Fort Bend ISD	Willowridge Kempner (Sugar Land) Marshall (Missouri City)

Galena Park ISD	Galena Park (Galena Park) North Shore (Cloverleaf)

Huffman ISD	Hargrave (Huffman)

Humble ISD	Kingwood Kingwood Park

Katy ISD	Mayde Creek (Unincorporated) James E. Taylor (Unincorporated)

Klein ISD	Klein Forest (Unincorporated)

New Caney ISD	Porter (Unincorporated)

Pasadena ISD	Dobie Pasadena Memorial (Pasadena) South Houston (South Houston)

Spring ISD	Dekaney (Unincorporated)

Spring Branch ISD	Memorial (Hedwig Village) Northbrook Spring Woods Stratford WAIS (magnet)

State charter	Galaviz Houston Heights KIPP (multiple campuses) Harmony Public Schools (multiple campuses) YES Prep (multiple campuses) Yzaguirre School

Independent

Secular private	Awty Briarwood British School Kinkaid (Piney Point Village) Monarch Post Oak Rainard School of the Woods St. John's The Village School

Religious	Al-Hadi School Beren Academy Cristo Rey Jesuit Darul Arqam North (Unincorporated) Emery/Weiner Episcopal (Bellaire) Houston Christian Iman Academy Incarnate Word Academy Lutheran High North Lutheran South Saint Agnes St. Pius X St. Stephen's Episcopal St. Thomas St. Thomas' Episcopal Strake Jesuit Westbury Christian

This list is incomplete. Italicized public schools are not in the "full purpose" Houston city limits (See map) but have portions of Houston in their attendance boundary, while italicized private schools are in municipalities that are surrounded by Houston and/or are in unincorporated areas but have Houston postal addresses.

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