Poe Elementary School (Houston)

Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School is a primary school located at 5100 Hazard Street in Houston, Texas, United States with a ZIP code of 77098.

The school, which was built during the 1920s, is located in the Boulevard Oaks neighborhood west of Rice University. The school was named after Edgar Allan Poe. The school is a part of the Houston Independent School District.

The Poe Cooperative Nursery School, a pre-school, is located on the school grounds.

History

Poe was established in the 1920s as an all white elementary school.

The Poe Elementary School Attack occurred on September 15, 1959, when a man named Paul Orgeron detonated a bomb during recess at Poe Elementary School, killing himself, a teacher (Jennie Katharine Kolter), a custodian (James Arlie Montgomery, for which Montgomery Elementary was named [http://es.houstonisd.org/MontgomeryES/index1.htm] ), and three 7-year old boys (Billy Hawes, Jr., John Fitch, Jr., and Dusty Paul, Orgeron's son). Ruth Doty, the principal, was partially deafened in one ear by the blast. Two then-new schools were later named after the victims (one after Kolter and one after Montgomery).

Poe was desegregated in 1970.

When the 2005-2006 school year concluded, Will Rogers Elementary School closed. Poe Elementary School gained the portion of the Will Rogers zoning boundary that was east of Weslayan [" [http://www.stgeorgeplace.com/HISD__school_zoning_2007.pdf St George Place ES Attendance Zone] ," "Houston Independent School District"] [" [http://dept.houstonisd.org/ab/schoolboundarymaps/WillRogersES.pdf W. Rogers Elementary Attendance Zone] ," "Houston Independent School District"] .

chool uniforms

Poe students (since fall 1998, as of 2006) have to wear school uniforms [" [http://es.houstonisd.org/poees/InformationPages/geninfo/uniforms.htm School Uniforms] ," "Poe Elementary School"] .

At first, students had a choice of white, red, yellow, or navy blue T-shirts and polo shirts and school T-shirts [" [http://web.archive.org/web/20040706120443/es.houstonisd.org/poees/InformationPages/geninfo/uniforms.htm School Uniforms] " as of July 6, 2004, "Poe Elementary School"] . Later the school banned all non-Poe logo shirts. As of 2006, all shirts must have the Poe logo.

Students must wear khaki bottoms.

The Texas Education Agency specified that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to a school with uniforms may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform [" [http://www.tea.state.tx.us/field/uniforms.html School Uniforms] ," "Texas Education Agency"] ; parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.

Neighborhoods served by Poe

The school serves Boulevard Oaks, Broad Acres, Lancaster Place, Ranch Estates, Richwood, Castle Court, Southampton, Shadyside, Rice Village, a portion of Neartown (Montrose), and a portion of Upper Kirby (areas of the district located west of Edloe and north of Westpark, residential areas located east of Edloe, west of Kirby, and north of U.S. Route 59, and residential areas east of Kirby). In addition, the The Greenway Condominiums are zoned to Poe Elementary. A public housing complex, the Ewing Apartments, is zoned to Poe.

Feeder patterns

Most residents of the Poe attendance boundary are zoned to Sidney Lanier Middle School (in Montrose) [" [http://dept.houstonisd.org/ab/schoolboundarymaps/LanierMS.pdf Lanier Middle Attendance Zone] ," "Houston Independent School District"] while a few are zoned to Ryan Middle School (in the Third Ward) [" [http://dept.houstonisd.org/ab/schoolboundarymaps/RyanMS.pdf Ryan Middle Attendance Zone] ," "Houston Independent School District"] . All residents of the Poe attendance boundary are zoned to Mirabeau B. Lamar High School (in Upper Kirby) [" [http://dept.houstonisd.org/ab/schoolboundarymaps/LamarHS.pdf Lamar High Attendance Zone] ," "Houston Independent School District"] .

References

External links

* [http://es.houstonisd.org/poees/ Poe Elementary School]
* [http://www.poeco.org/ Poe Cooperative Nursery School]
* [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/first100/805927.html Poe school coverage detailed a tragedy] - Houston Chronicle article on the Poe bombing
* [http://www.texasranger.org/dispatch/7/Gooding.htm A book review of "Ed Gooding: Soldier, Texas Ranger" that includes excerpts related to the Poe bombing]