| Chávez High School | |
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8501 Howard Drive , 77017 | |
| Coordinates | 29°41′13″N95°15′16″W / 29.6870°N 95.2545°W /29.6870; -95.2545 |
| Information | |
| Type | PublicHigh School |
| Motto | We Are Chavez |
| School district | Houston Independent School District |
| Principal | Luis Landa |
| Staff | 128.10 (FTE)[1] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,006 (2023-2024)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 15.66[1] |
| Colors | Blue, White, Silver, Black |
| Athletics conference | 18-6A |
| Nickname | Lobos |
| Newspaper | The Paw Print |
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| Website | http://www.houstonisd.org/chavez |
César E. Chávez High School[2] is a secondary school located at 8501 Howard Drive in the Allendale neighborhood inHouston,Texas,United States.[3]
The school is part of theHouston Independent School District, and serves grades nine through twelve. Chavez serves several areas outside the610 Loop in southeast Houston, including the neighborhoods ofGlenbrook Valley, Gulf Freeway Oaks, andPark Place.
Chavez High School serves a mainly Hispanic population located nearHobby Airport.[citation needed] The school is named for civil rights activistCesar E. Chavez.
HISD's Environmental Science magnet program is offered at Chavez. The school's principal (as of June 2019) is Dr. Luis Landa. The "Lobo" (Spanish for "wolf") is the school's official mascot.
The school became anInternational Baccalaureate school which started offering Diploma Programme classes in 2017-2018.[4]
By 1991 theEast End area schoolsAustin High School andMilby High School had among the largest enrollments in Texas. In December of that year school district trustees voted to construct a new high school in September 1995 instead of 1997 due to the severity of overcrowding.[5] By 1997 the new high school had not yet been constructed; area community leaders and parents anticipated the construction of Chávez as Austin and Milby were still overcrowded.[6]
In the fall of 2000, Chávez opened and took most of Milby's traditional neighborhoods. In turn Milby absorbed some students from Austin.[7]
A group called the Unidos Contra Environmental Racism (UCER) protested the school's proximity to many chemical plants before it was opened;[8] the school is less than .25 miles (0.40 km) from plants owned by Texas Petroleum, Denka Chemical, USS Chemical, and Goodyear Chemical.Juan Parras, the leader of the UCER group, stated that the school would take the brunt of a chemical leak.[9] Heather Browne, a spokesperson for Houston ISD, stated that the Chavez site was tested for environmental hazards in the air and soil in 1992 and 1996; no problems were found in the tests. Browne also stated that one park, three public swimming pools, the City Hall ofSouth Houston, and one golf course are within 2 miles (3.2 km) of Chavez.[10]
In 2007, an Associated Press/Johns Hopkins University study referred to Chávez as a "dropout factory" where at least 40% of the entering freshman class does not make it to their senior year.[11] During that year 21% of high school age children zoned to Chávez chose to attend a different Houston ISD school.[12]
In 2014 HISD superintendentTerry Grier stated that Chávez should reduce its enrollment to around 3,000 students.[13]
Students at Chávez use the former Kay Elementary School inHarrisburg as a "land lab".[14]
For the 2022-23 school year:
As of 2009 Chávez's enrollment mostly consists of low income Hispanic and Latino students.[15]
Chavez fields eighteen varsity teams in the University Interscholastic League's Region III, District 20-5A with the Houston Independent School District's largest high schools. The campus has a field house that includes an athletic training room, weight room, team meeting rooms, coaches' offices, coaches and officials' lockers, and large locker room areas for male and female athletes. Other campus athletic facilities include an 8-lane all-weather track, 4 tennis courts, an outdoor basketball court, a practice gymnasium, basketball court, secondary weight room, natatorium with olympic-sized competition pool, football, baseball, softball, soccer fields, and a cross country running course over wooded terrain.
Varsity sports offered at the school include:
Chavez High School has a band and orchestra program, as well a choir and piano class.Chavez also has a Theatre program that consists of acting, musical theatre, and tech.
Also, Army JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps).
In the 2011 novelWhat Can't Wait, the sports team of the Houston high school attended by the main character is the "Loyal Lobos".[16] Chávez High's real-life mascot is the "Lobos",[17] and the novel's author, Ashley Hope Pérez, once worked as a teacher at Chávez.[18] In the acknowledgements section Pérez thanked the students of Chávez High.[19]
Elementary schools that feed into Chavez[20] include:
Middle schools that feed into Chavez include:
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