Yates High School
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| Official name | Jack Yates Senior High School |
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| Principal | George August |
| Location | 3703 Sampson |
| Link | School website |
| Enrollment | 1,302 (2004-2005 [1]) |
| Established | 1926 |
| Mascot | Lion |
| School colors | Crimson and Gold |
Jack Yates High School is a secondary school located at 3703 Sampson in Houston, Texas with a zip code of 77004. Yates High School handles grades nine through twelve and is part of the Houston Independent School District.
Yates was named after Reverend John Henry "Jack" Yates, a former slave and a minister [2].
Yates is a tradition in the Third Ward and many of the alumni of Yates are passionate about the school.
Yates has HISD's magnet program for photography. Eye on the Third Ward [3], a collection of works made by Yates students, was posted in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH).
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[edit] History
Yates was established on February 8, 1926 as "Yates Colored High School" with 17 teachers and 600 students [4]. The school, initially located at 2610 Elgin, was the second school for African-Americans established in Houston. Yates relocated to its current location in September 1958. Yates' former location became Ryan Colored Junior High School (now Ryan Middle School.) Houston ISD desegregated in 1970.
Yates, along with Sam Houston High School and Kashmere High School, had been consistently low-performing in test scores from 2001 to 2004. Because of this problem, there were movements to have the state or another organization take over the schools for a period so the test scores will be at acceptable levels. Yates got an "acceptable" rating from the Texas Education Agency in 2005.
Yates' enrollment had been suffering in the 2000s; some neighborhoods zoned to Yates had rising real estate costs. Many poor households with Yates students are being priced out of the neighborhoods and forced to move outside of the Yates attendance boundary. Several neighborhoods that were zoned to Yates were rezoned to Lamar High School in the 1990s. In addition, students who live in middle and upper class subdivisions such as University Oaks, Oak Manor, Riverside Terrace, and University Woods who remain in the public education system choose to attend other schools, including Lamar and Bellaire high schools; the exodus of well-performing students frustrated the administration [5].
In 2006, Houston mayor Bill White proclaimed February 7 as "Jack Yates Senior High School Day" [6].
[edit] Neighborhoods served by Yates
Several areas inside the 610 Loop that are south of Downtown, including the Third Ward, Timbercrest, University Oaks, Oak Manor, University Woods, Scott Terrace, South Union, Foster Place, Washington Terrace, and LaSalette Place, as well as most of Riverside Terrace, are zoned to Yates.
Cuney Homes, a unit of public housing, is zoned to Yates.
[edit] School uniform
Yates students are required to wear a school uniform as of 2006. The uniform differs by grade level.
[edit] Feeder patterns
Elementary schools that feed into Yates include:
- Blackshear
- Foster
- Hartsfield
- Lockhart
- MacArthur
- Turner
(partial)
- Dodson
- J. P. Henderson
- J. W. Jones
- Kelso
- Peck
- Thompson
- Whidby
Portions of Cullen and Ryan Middle Schools also feed into Yates.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Debbie Allen - Professional actress
- Johnny Bailey - Former NFL football Player for the Chicago Bears, Arizona Cardinals, and St. Louis Rams.
- Garnet Coleman - State representative for District 147 in Houston.
- Santana Dotson - Former NFL football Player and member of the 1996 Super Bowl Champion (XXXI) Green Bay Packers.
- Al Edwards
- Booker Huffman, a professional wrestler in World Wrestling Entertainment.
- Conrad O. Johnson - world-renowned jazz saxophonist and leader of the Conrad Johnson Orchestra.
- Dexter Manley - Former NFL football Player and member of the 1982 Super Bowl Champion [XVII] Washington Redskins.
- Phylicia Rashad - Professional actress best known for her role opposite famed comedian Bill Cosby as "Claire Huxtable" on the 1980's sitcom The Cosby Show.
- John Roper - Former NFL football Player for the Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys, and Philadelphia Eagles.
- Robyn Troup - Winner of the 'My Grammy Moment' contest and performed with Justin Timberlake at the 2007 Grammy Awards.
- Michael Young - Former NBA player for the Los Angeles Clippers, Philadelphia 76ers, and Phoenix Suns.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Jack Yates Alumni
- A website created by people trying to take Yates High School out of the low performing school decision process
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| Alternative and magnet K-12 schools | T. H. Rogers |
| Alternative 7-12 schools | C.L.C. |
| High schools | Austin | Bellaire | Chávez | Davis | Furr | Sam Houston | Jones | Kashmere | Lamar | Lee | Madison | Milby Reagan | Scarborough | Sharpstown | Sterling | Waltrip | Washington | Westbury | Westside | Wheatley | Worthing | Yates |
| Magnet-Only High schools | Carnegie Vanguard | Challenge Early College | DeBakey | H.S.P.V.A. | Barbara Jordan | H.S.L.E.C.J. |
| K-8 schools | Gregory-Lincoln | Woodson |
| K-8 magnet schools | Briarmeadow | Kandy Stripe | Rice |
| 1-8 schools | E.O. Smith |
| Middle schools | Attucks | Black | Burbank MS | Clifton | Cullen | Deady | Dowling | Edison | Fleming | Fondren MS | Fonville | Grady Hamilton | Hartman | Henry | Hogg | Holland | Jackson | Johnston | Key | Long | Lanier | Marshall | McReynolds Ortíz | Pershing | Pin Oak | Revere | Ryan | Sharpstown | Stevenson | Thomas | Welch | West Briar |
| Elementary schools | Briargrove | Longfellow | Neff | Poe | River Oaks | Roberts | Twain | West University | Others |
