CÃÆ' Â © sar E. ChÃÆ'¡vez High School is a high school located at 8501 Howard Drive in Houston, Texas, United States.
The school is part of the Houston Independent School District, and serves grades nine to twelve. Chavez serves several areas outside Loop 610 in southeast Houston, including the Glenbrook Valley neighborhood, Gulf Freeway Oaks, and Park Place.
Chavez High School serves mainly Hispanic populations located near Hobby Airport. The school is named for civil rights activist Cesar E. Chavez.
The Environmental Science magnet program from HISD is offered at Chavez. The principal (as of June 2013) is Rene Sanchez. The "Lobo" (Spanish for "wolf") is the official school mascot.
The school became an International Baccalaureate school that began offering Diploma Program classes in 2017-2018.
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Histori
In 1991, areas in the East End, high school in Austin and Milby High School, were among the largest registrations in Texas. In December of that year, school district guardians decided to build a new secondary school in September 1995, not 1997 because of the severity of the density. In 1997 a new secondary school had not yet been built; local community leaders and parents anticipate the construction of ChÃÆ'¡vez as Austin and Milby are still crowded.
In the fall of 2000, ChÃÆ'¡vez opened and took up most of Milby's traditional neighborhood. In turn, Milby absorbs some students from Austin.
A group called Environmental Racism Unidos Contra (UCER) protested school closeness with many chemical plants as soon as it opened; schools less than 0.25 miles (0.40 km) from plants owned by Texas Petroleum, Denka Chemical, USS Chemical, and Goodyear Chemical. Juan Parras, leader of the UCER group, stated that schools will bear the burden of chemical leaks. Heather Browne, a spokeswoman for Houston ISD, stated that the Chavez site was tested for environmental hazards in the air and soil in 1992 and 1996; no problems found in the test. Browne also stated that one park, three public pools, Town Hall in South Houston, and a golf course are 2 miles from Chavez.
In 2007, an Associated Press/Johns Hopkins University study refers to ChÃÆ'¡vez as a "dropout factory" in which at least 40% of the incoming student classes are not up to their senior year. During that year 21% of middle school children who were dizonasikan to ChÃÆ'¡vez chose to attend different ISD Houston schools.
In 2014 Terry Grier stated that ChÃÆ'¡vez should reduce its enrollment to about 3,000 students.
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Operation
Students at ChÃÆ'¡vez used Kay's Primary School in Harrisburg as a "ground laboratory".
Demographics
For the 2012-13 school year:
- African Americans: 11.6%
- Hispanic: 82,9%
- White: 1.7%
- American Indian: 0.2%
- Asia: 3.1%
- Pacific Islands: 0.5%
- Two or More Races: 0.0%
- Underdeveloped Economics: 79.9%
In 2009 ChÃÆ'¡vez's enrollment consisted mostly of low-income Hispanic and Latino students.
AP Program Offered at ChÃÆ'¡vez
- AP World History
- AP History of the United States
- English AP and Composition
- AP English Literature
- Spanish AP
- Spanish Literature AP
- AP Economics
- AP United States Government
- AP Calculus AB
- AP Calculus BC
- Chemistry AP
- AP Physics
- AP History of Europe
- AP Biology
- Environmental Science AP
- Computer Science AP
Athletics and Arts
Chavez oversees eighteen university teams at Interscholastic League University in Region III, District 20-5A with the largest high schools in the Houston Independent School District. The campus has a field house that includes an athletic training room, weightlifting room, team meeting room, coach office, trainer and official locker, and a large locker room area for male and female athletes. Other campus athletics facilities include an 8-lane all-weather trail, 4 tennis courts, an outdoor basketball court, a gymnasium, a basketball court, a secondary weight room, a natatorium with Olympic-size competition pool, soccer, baseball, softball ball, soccer field, and cross country courses on forested lands.
Varsity sports offered at schools include:
- Cross Country (boy, girl)
- Volleyball (girl)
- Football (boy)
- Soccer (boy, girl)
- Baseball (boy)
- Softball (female)
- Basketball (boys, girls)
- Wrestling (boy, girl)
- Golf (boy, girl)
- Tennis (boy, girl)
- Track & amp; Field (boy, girl)
Chavez High School has band and orchestra programs, as well as choral and piano classes. Chavez also has a Theater program consisting of acting, musical theater, and technology.
In media
In the 2011 What Can not Wait novel, a sports team from Houston's high school attended by the main character is "Loyal Lobos". The real life mascot ChÃÆ'¡vez High is "Lobos", and novelist, Ashley Hope PÃÆ'Â © rez, once worked as a teacher at ChÃÆ'¡vez. In the thank you section, PÃ © rez thanked the students of ChÃÆ'¡vez High.
Feeder Patterns
Ground schools that feed Chavez include:
- Bonner
- Park Place
- Patterson
- Cornelius (partial)
- Lewis (partial)
- Rucker (partial)
- Sanchez (partial)
Secondary schools feeding to Chavez include:
- Ortiz
- Deady (partial)
- Stevenson (partially)
Famous Alumni
Juan DÃÆ'az (2001) Lightweight Champion of the World Boxing Association in 2004; also the Mexican National Tournament Tournament in 2000
Michael Brockers (2009) handles American football defensive; playing college football at LSU; considered by many as the best in dealing with defensive prospects in NFL Draft 2012.
See also
References
External links
- Chavez High School
- Chavez High School in Wayback Machine (index archive)
- Lobo Baseball
- Haynes Whaley Architecture Page at Chavez High School
- The FKP Architecture page in the interior of Chavez High School
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