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Children's Museum Houston. Children's Museum Houston (CMH) is a nonprofit children's museum in the Museum District of Houston, Texas. Founded in 1980 and designed by Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, it offers exhibits and bilingual learning programs for children aged 0–12. It is one of 190 children's museums in the United States and 15 ...
A block in Downtown Houston is the new location for HSPVA. It formerly housed Sam Houston High School; at a later point the building housed the HISD headquarters. [25] The building is five stories and 168,000 square feet (15,600 m 2) in size, [26] at a cost of $88.4 million. [27] [28] Gensler Architects designed the building. [29]
Worthing Junior-Senior High School was built in 1958, [3] and it opened on January 27, 1958. The students zoned to Worthing previously attended Miller Junior High School and Yates High School. [4] The school is named after Evan Edward Worthing, a Houston real-estate developer who set up a scholarship trust for African-American HISD students.
River Oaks Elementary School is a magnet school, [2] and neighborhood school, [3] part of the Houston Independent School District. It is located in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas, United States [4][5] As of 2022, Brett Gallini is the principal. It houses one of several gifted and talented programs, referred to as "Vanguard ...
Bellaire High School. Lamar High School. Westside High School. This is a list of schools operated by the Houston Independent School District. In the district, grades kindergarten through 5 are considered to be elementary school, grades 6 through 8 are considered to be middle school, and grades 9 through 12 are considered to be senior high school.
Space Center Houston is a science museum that serves as the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It was designated a Smithsonian Affiliate museum in 2014. The organization is owned by NASA, and operated under a contract by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) organization.
The campus is located between Texas Southern University and the University of Houston. In 2012, Richard Connelly of the Houston Press ranked the previous 1958 Yates campus as the second most architecturally beautiful high school campus in Greater Houston. Connelly said that "Some would call this generic, but we like the proud `60s style." [40]
The nonprofit Children at Risk in 2011 ranked Jones High School the lowest in the Houston area. Students take few advanced courses and post low test scores. Roughly half drop out. This is despite higher than average funding per student of $9,257 as compared to the average of $7,355 spend per student according to the Texas Education Agency. [30]