Northside Independent School District

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Note, this Northside ISD serves the San Antonio area. For the Northside ISD near Vernon, see Northside Independent School District (Wilbarger County, Texas)

Northside Independent School District is a school district headquartered in Leon Valley, Texas. It is the largest school district in the San Antonio area and the fourth largest^[1] in the State of Texas (and is projected within the next 1-2 years to surpass the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District for the third place position). Northside serves 355 square miles (920 km²) of urban landscape, suburban growth and rural Texas hill country. Northside is roughly 50 percent built out with the center of the district's boundaries near Helotes, TX, just north of the Bandera Road and Loop 1604 intersection. Because of fast paced growth, the district envisions possibly another four high schools over the next few decades, including far west areas off Potranco Road and Hwy 211 (near the Medina County line), Culebra Road (FM 471) past Talley Road, I-10 near Boerne Stage Road (north of the Dominion) and far north Bandera Road (Hwy 16) near the Pipe Creek/Bandera County/Medina County areas.

Northside ISD serves a portion of the city of San Antonio as well as the cities of Grey Forest, Leon Valley, Shavano Park, Helotes and the unincorporated communities of Cross Mountain, Leon Springs, and Scenic Oaks. The district also serves some unincorporated portions of Bexar County, Bandera County, and Medina County.

Contents 1 Student Enrollment 2 Schools 2.1 High Schools 2.2 Middle Schools 2.3 Elementary Schools 2.4 Special Schools 3 History 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Student Enrollment

Based on 09-10 Enrollment

*Enrollment : 91,000

[edit] Schools

[edit] High Schools

Northside has chosen a unique method of naming its traditional high schools; each school is named for a former or current United States Supreme Court justice. Under current district policy ^[2], eighth graders who will be part of a new high school's first graduating class are encouraged to research prior justices and submit nominations.

The justices so honored are Louis D. Brandeis, Tom C. Clark, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Jay, John Marshall (the oldest high school; originally named Northside Rural High School but later renamed to conform to the naming convention), Sandra Day O'Connor, John Paul Stevens (who attended the school's dedication), William Howard Taft, and Earl Warren. The district's 10th high school, to open in 2010, will honor William J. Brennan.

• Louis D. Brandeis High School, San Antonio
• William J. Brennan High School (opens 2010)
• Business Careers High School, San Antonio
• Tom C. Clark High School, San Antonio
• Communications Arts High School, San Antonio
• Construction Careers Academy, San Antonio
• Health Careers High School, San Antonio
• Holmes High School, San Antonio
• John Jay High School, San Antonio
• John Jay Science and Engineering Academy, San Antonio
• John Marshall High School, Leon Valley (formerly Northside High School, renamed in 1960)
  • National Blue Ribbon School in 1992-93 ^[3]
• Sandra Day O'Connor High School, Helotes
• John Paul Stevens High School, San Antonio
• William H. Taft High School
  • National Blue Ribbon School in 1997-98 ^[3]
• Earl Warren High School, San Antonio

[edit] Middle Schools

• Dolph Briscoe (opens 2010)
• John B. Connally
• Hector Garcia
• William P. Hobby
• Wallace B. Jefferson
• Anson Jones
• Jack C. Jordan
• Gregory Luna
• Pat Neff
• E. M. Pease
• Ed Rawlinson
• Sam Rayburn
• Sul Ross
• Earl Rudder
• Coke R. Stevenson
  • National Blue Ribbon School in 1990-91 ^[3]
• Katherine Stinson
• Robert L. Vale
• H. B. Zachry

[edit] Elementary Schools

Adams Hill Aue Beard Behlau (opens 2010) Blattman Boone Brauchle National Blue Ribbon School in 1998-99 [3] Braun Station Burke Cable Carlos Coon Carnahan Carson Cody Colonies North Driggers Elrod Esparza National Blue Ribbon School in 2000-01 [3] Evers Fernandez Fisher Forester

Galm Glass Glenn Glenoaks National Blue Ribbon School in 1998-99 [3] Hatchett Helotes Henderson (opens 2010) Hoffmann Howsman National Blue Ribbon School in 2000-01 [3] Knowlton Krueger Kuentz Lackland City Langley Leon Springs Leon Valley Lewis Lieck (opens 2011) Linton Locke Hill National Blue Ribbon School in 1998-99 [3] Martin (opens 2010) Mary Hull National Blue Ribbon School in 1996-97 [3]

May McDermott Mead Meadow Village Michael Murnin Myers Nichols Northwest Crossing Oak Hills Terrace Ott Passmore Powell Raba Rhodes Scarborough Scobee Steubing Thornton Timberwilde Valley Hi Villarreal Wanke Ward Westwood Terrace

In addition, two unnamed schools will open in future years, one in the Westwinds area (2011) and one in the Bandera Road North area (2012).

[edit] Special Schools

• Alternative Elementary School
• Alternative High School
• Alternative Middle School-North
• Alternative Middle School-South
• Children's Center
• Evening High School
• Excel Academy
• Habilitation Program
• Holmgreen Center
• Northside Vocational Transition Program
• Special Education Night School

[edit] History

The district was formed in 1949 via consolidation of several rural school districts, having a mere 823 students:

• Clifton
• Culebra
• Helotes (including the former Los Reyes district which Helotes absorbed in 1939)
• Hoffman
• Leon Springs
• Leon Valley (including the former Evers district which Leon Valley absorbed in 1924)
• Locke Hill
• Lockhart
• Mackey
• San Antonio Heights

[edit] See also

• List of school districts in Texas

[edit] References

1. ^ Facts and Figures : Northside Independent School District - San Antonio, TX 78238
2. ^ http://www.tasb.org/policy/pol/private/015915/pol.cfm?DisplayPage=CW(LOCAL).html Local District Policy for naming schools
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Blue Ribbon Schools Program, Schools Recognized 1982-1983 Through 1999-2002 (PDF)

[edit] External links

• Northside ISD

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