Aldine Independent School District

ALDINE ISD
ALDINE ISD
Location
	14910 Aldine Westfield Road, Harris County, Texas (Houston, TX 77032 address);
Information
Motto	"Producing The Nations Best!"
Established	1936
Superintendent	Wanda Bamberg
Enrollment	56,255 Students
Website	aldine.k12.tx.us

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M. B. Sonny Donaldson Administration Building

M. O. Campbell Educational Center

M. B. Sonny Donaldson Resource Center

M. B. Sonny Donaldson Annex

Aldine Independent School District is a school district based in an unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States. It serves portions of Houston and unincorporated Harris County. AISD is part of the taxation base for the Lone Star College System. Dr. Wanda Bamberg serves as superintendent of schools.

In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency.^[1]

[edit] History

In 1935 the communities of Aldine, Brubaker, Higgs and Westfield which at the time were part of the Harris County Common School District 29 approved a consolidated school district which would become Aldine ISD. The districts first schools were off Aldine-Westfield near Aldine-Bender. AISD also acquired the Carver school which became the districts school for blacks after the state closed the North Houston School District in 1936. This added portions of Acres Homes to the district.

By 1947 there was an elementary, a middle and high school. Both the elementary and middle school were called Marrs, named after a former state superintendent of public instruction (now Lane and Aldine Middle respectfully). The new High school built in 1947 was named Aldine High School. In 1953 a second elementary school was built at 222 Raymac and was named Inez Carroll after a former educator in the district. On November 24, 1954 the Aldine High school campus burned to the ground. A new campus was built at 11101 Airline Drive on the site of the former Gulf Coast Airport which was completed in 1956. Several schools have since been built in the district.

[edit] Recognition

Aldine ISD ranks among the state's high performing school districts according to data from the Texas Education Agency (TEA).^{[citation needed]} The district has earned seven Recognized ratings since 1996 and was one of five 2004 and 2005 National Finalists for the Broad Prize for Urban Education. Aldine is also the second best large school district in Texas for educating African American students and is ranked third among large school districts in Texas in educating Latino students, according to recent studies conducted by Texas A&M University and the University of Texas-Pan American. AISD’s school board was one of 24 school boards across the nation, and the only one in Texas, to receive the coveted Magna Award for 1999 from the American School Board Journal. The board was also named the 1998 Outstanding School Board of Texas by the Texas Association of School Administrators. [1]

[edit] Communities Served

Aldine ISD serves the communities of Aldine, most of Greenspoint, portions of Airline, Acres Homes, Kinwood, Bordersville, and Inwood Forest.

[edit] Demographics

AISD is a predominantly minority school district. It is made up of 60.8% students of Hispanic origin, 32.2% students of African American origin, and 4.8% students of white origin.^{[citation needed]}

Around 1977 AISD was almost 75% White. During that year the Federal Government of the United States forced Aldine ISD and several other Texas schools to adopt a desegregation plan. Enacted in 1978, the plan forced the district to redraw attendance boundaries so that no school was more than 30% black. By 2002 Aldine ISD was the only school district in Texas still under a federal order. Hispanic students made up the majority, African Americans were 33%, almost double the 1977 statistic, and less than 8% of the students were White. The order asked for schools to have a percentage of African American students within 15 percentage points of the district wide Black enrollment. Therefore by 2002 schools were required to have between 18% and 48% Black students. The court order forced AISD to keep African-American faculty within 5% of the overall district percentage points for elementary schools and within 10% of the overall percentage points for secondary schools. The AISD administration criticized the court order, saying the guidelines were impossible meet. The desegregation order was removed by a federal judge in December 2002 and the attendance boundaries were redrawn. As of 2011 most AISD students attend the school closest to where they live.^[2]

[edit] Schools

Aldine High School

[edit] Alternative Schools

Lane School (Unincorporated) (Early Childhood-12)
Compass (Unincorporated) (2-12)

[edit] Secondary schools

[edit] High Schools (9-12)

Nimitz High School

Eisenhower Ninth Grade School

[edit] Senior High Schools (9-12)

Carver High School (Houston)

[edit] Senior High Schools (10-12)

Aldine High School (Opened 1956) (Houston)
Eisenhower High School (Opened 1972) (Houston)
MacArthur High School (Opened 1965) (Unincorporated)
Nimitz High School (Opened 1978) (Unincorporated)
Gen. Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. High School (construction will be completed in March 2012)^[3]^[4]

[edit] Ninth Grade Schools (9)

Aldine Ninth Grade School (Opened 1999) (Houston)
Eisenhower Ninth Grade School(Opened 1999) (Houston)
Douglas MacArthur Ninth Grade School (Opened 2000) (Unincorporated)
Nimitz Ninth Grade School (Opened 2000) (Unincorporated)
Gen. Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. Ninth Grade School (construction to be completed in March 2013)^[3]^[4]

[edit] Alternative/Magnet

Wilmer T. Hall Center for Education (Opened 1995) (Unincorporated)
Victory Early College High School (Opened 2007) (Houston)

[edit] Middle Schools (7-8)

Thomas J. Stovall Middle School

Aldine Middle School (Unincorporated)
Drew Academy (Opened 1995) (Houston)
Grantham Academy (Unincorporated)
Hambrick Middle School (Unincorporated)
Hoffman Middle School (Houston)
Lewis Middle School (Opened 2010) (Unincorporated)
Plummer Middle School (Opened 2006) (Unincorporated)
Shotwell Middle School (Unincorporated)
Thomas J. Stovall Middle School (Houston)
- National Blue Ribbon School '90-'91 ^[5]
Teague Middle School (Unincorporated)

[edit] Primary Schools

[edit] Intermediate Schools (5-6)

Escamilla Intermediate School

Caraway Intermediate School (Opened 1993) (Houston)
Eckert Intermediate School (Opened 1994) (Unincorporated)
Escamilla Intermediate School (Opened 1994) (Unincorporated)
Hill Intermediate School (FKA: Northwest Intermediate School) (Opened 2002) (Unincorporated)
Houston Academy (Opened 2004) (Houston)
Marcella Intermediate School (Opened fall 2007) (Houston)
Parker Intermediate School (Opened 1995) (Unincorporated)
Rayford Intermediate School (Opened 2010) ("Unincorporated")
Reed Academy (Opened 1995) (Unincorporated)
Stehlik Intermediate School (Opened 1994) (Unincorporated)
Wilson Intermediate School (Opened 1993) (Unincorporated)