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Sharpstown High School

• Location & Contact Information
  • Address, Directions, & Map:
    • 7504 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas, United States of America
  • Telephone Numbers:
    • 713-771-7215
    • 713-773-6103 (fax)
  • Official Website: [1]
• History & Memorable Moments

Sharpstown High School was originally in the campus now occupied by Sharpstown Middle School. In fall 1970 Sharpstown High School moved into a new campus. A 2003 state audit of HISD's performance caused more controversy. One of the district's most publicized accomplishments during the Rod Paige era was a dramatic reduction in dropout rates. When 16 secondary schools, including Sharpstown High School, were audited, it was found that most of the students who left school from those schools in 2000-2001 should have been counted as dropouts, but were not. It was found that the administrators at Sharpstown deliberately changed the dropout rate at the school. The Sharpstown controversy resulted in a recommendation to label the entire HISD as "unacceptable." Former Sharpstown assistant principal Robert Kimball asserts that HISD coerced administrators at many schools to lie on dropout rates. HISD asserts that the fraud is only contained to Sharpstown, and that the false statistics at other schools were caused by confusion related to the state's system of tracking students who leave school.^[1]

According to the October 2006 "For Your Information" newsletter, Sharpstown was one of four high schools that took the most Hurricane Katrina evacuees. In 2007 Johns Hopkins University referred to Sharpstown as a "dropout factory"^[1]

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