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Mark Twain Elementary School
Mark Twain Elementary School is a public primary school located at 7500 Braes Boulevard in Houston, Texas, United States.
Twain, which serves grades Kindergarten through 5, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. Twain has HISD's extended day and literary development magnet program.[1]
Twain, which was named after Mark Twain, serves several subdivisions in the Houston neighborhood of Braeswood Place north of the Brays Bayou. In addition, the school serves the portion of the city of Southside Place south of Bellaire Boulevard.
Twain was one of the first three elementary schools in Texas to offer the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme [2]; the other two were fellow HISD schools River Oaks and Roberts.
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History
The new Mark Twain campus under constructionMark Twain opened on March 11, 1950 with 850 students. In the 1980s, the local neighborhoods saw a decrease in children; Houston ISD considered closing Mark Twain due to the lack of children at the school.[3] By the 1990s, the student body rebounded as new families moved into the Braeswood Place community.[4]
In fall 2004, the old Mark Twain building fell to bulldozers, and the school officials relocated the children to temporary buildings established on the school grounds as the new Mark Twain Elementary School began construction.[5] By Summer 2006, construction had ended in the already-opened building. Gilbane Building Company managed the construction, while Curtney Harper + Partners served as the lead architect. The building's budget was $14,000,000 United States dollars.
School uniforms
A statue of Mark Twain at the school.All Twain students are required to wear school uniforms.[6]
Students may wear solid-colored red, white, or blue tops. In addition, any Mark Twain logo shirt is permitted. Students may wear navy, khaki, or blue denim bottoms. Students are not permitted to wear tank tops or bicycle shorts. During the last Friday of every month, students are allowed to wear free dress.
Feeder patterns
All residents zoned to Mark Twain [7] are zoned to Pershing Middle School [8], with Pin Oak Middle School as an option.
Mark Twain-zoned residents north of South Braeswood and east of Stella Link Road are zoned to Lamar High School [9]. All other Twain-zoned residents are zoned to Bellaire High School.[10]
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ "General Information." Mark Twain Elementary School.
- ^ "Studying our Schools: An Overview/The search for quality education/ Regardless of where they live, parents ask same question: How good are the schools?." Houston Chronicle. October 13, 1996. Retrieved June 11, 2008.
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5]
- ^ [6]
- ^ [7]
- ^ [8]
External links
- Mark Twain Elementary School at Houston ISD
- Mark Twain PTO website
- HISD Teacher: Put My Grandson With "Good White Neighborhood Boys" - Houston Press
- Not Everyone's Happy Mark Twain's "Nice White Boys" Principal Is Back - Houston Press
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