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(New page: {{Coord|29.675129|-95.3423274|display=title|type:School}} == Jones High School == * Address: 7414 St. Lo, Houston, Texas, United States of America 77033 * Phone: ** (713) 733-1111 ** (713...)
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Jones High School

  • Address: 7414 St. Lo, Houston, Texas, United States of America 77033
  • Phone:
    • (713) 733-1111
    • (713) 732-3450 (fax)
  • Website: [1]
  • Overview

Jones was established as an all-white high school. Starting with its desegregation by 1970, the student body increasingly became mostly African-American. [1]

According to police reports, on September 21, 1990, during a class at Jones, a 16-year-old girl fatally stabbed 18-year-old Anthony Johnson in the upper back with a hunting knife; no teacher was present in the room, and a student received a cut on his hand when he tried to stop the incident. Johnson died at Ben Taub Hospital. Dianna Hunt of the Houston Chronicle reported that the boy "apparently" said a "disparaging comment about her clothing." The suspect was placed in the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department. This gave Jones a reputation as being a violent school. [1]

For the 2000-2001 school year, Jones did not have a high school yearbook or senior photographs since the school administration had not been paying the bills that would have allowed those functions to occur. For the 2001-2002 school year, only Vanguard program students would appear in the school yearbook. [1]

Margaret Downing of the Houston Press said in 2002 that the school's administration had no knowledge of whether students were in class. [1]

On September 15, 2005, Houston natives and New Orleans Hurricane Katrina refugees fought in the school. The fight made national headlines. [1]

A 2007 Johns Hopkins University study cited Jones as a "dropout factory" where at least 40 percent of the entering freshman class does not make it to their senior year. During that year, 55 percent of children zoned to Jones chose to attend a different Houston ISD school. [1]

In 2010, Terry Grier, the superintendent of HISD, proposed converting Jones into an all-magnet school. During that year around 900 pupils in the Jones attendance zone, about 2/3 of the high school-aged children in that area, choose to attend an HISD school other than Jones. [1]

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