Lisa Gray of the Houston Chronicle said that the "shabby" campus was "far not only from most of its students' homes, but also from most Houstonians' consciousness." Gray also said that "By accident, the old elementary school's layout promoted the kind of effortless mixing that the latest designs for offices and research facilities strive to encourage." Academics Classes Ĭarnegie Vanguard offers only Pre-Advanced Placement (Pre-AP) and Advanced Placement (AP) courses in English, Math, Science, and Social Studies as well as Honors elective courses in core subject areas. The old campus was located adjacent to a horse pasture. The former Carnegie Elementary building had about 42,500 square feet (3,950 m 2) of space, including the exterior corridors. The previous Carnegie campus was located in the former Carnegie Elementary School building off of Scott Street and Airport Boulevard near the Sunnyside neighborhood. The HISD bond did not cover the Orange Crush renovation. The theater building is a former Orange Crush bottling plant and is one of the few remaining Art Deco buildings in Houston. The district had initially intended for a new campus of the High School for Performing and Visual Arts to be built at the site that is occupied by the new Carnegie. The new building shares its site with the Gregory Lincoln Education Center. The building committee lobbied for a central courtyard, which is a part of the school's culture. Parents, staff members, and students provided input for the design of the new CVHS campus. The new building can house up to 750 students. The new campus is located on a 6-acre (2.4 ha) plot at the northeast corner of West Gray Street and Taft Street. HISD provides school bus transportation to students who live more than two miles away from the school. It is in proximity to Downtown, and to Midtown. The current campus is located in the Fourth Ward, Houston. The theater is a former Orange Crush bottling plant Current Fourth Ward Campus On December 4, 2008, Abelardo Saavedra, the HISD superintendent at the time, shelve plans of Carnegie and Worthing sharing cafeterias since the proposal had insufficient support from the board of trustees. Parents at Worthing accepted the proposal while parents at Carnegie asked for the proposal to be discontinued due to high violence levels at Worthing. In November 2008, HISD proposed to rebuild Carnegie and Worthing and have the two schools share the same cafeteria. The elementary school students who attended Carnegie Elementary were moved to Woodson Middle School, which became the Woodson K-8 School Woodson now has only elementary grades. Carnegie began its first year as a separate school (2002–2003) with 173 students. Ĭarnegie Vanguard High School opened in August 2002 in the former Carnegie Elementary School building on Scott Street and Airport Boulevard near the Sunnyside neighborhood. The reinstatement of Lawrence Allen, the Jones HS principal, who was put in charge of the comprehensive program at Jones, prompted the HISD Vanguard program separation. It is one of the many Magnet schools in HISD designed to attract a diverse ethnicity of students by former HISD Superintendent Billy Regan. From fall 1977 to spring 2002, the HISD High School Vanguard Program was a separate program located at Jesse Jones High School. The HISD Vanguard program was designed to serve the needs of gifted and talented students. Jones High School, the former home of the HISD Vanguard program Jones High School For the past several years, Carnegie Vanguard has been consistently ranked the top-ranked public high school in the Houston area and a top-25 public high school in the country by several major magazines and journals, including Newsweek, The Washington Post, and U.S. It is the only High School Vanguard Program in HISD meaning that all students are labelled as gifted and talented by testing and the school has students take all Advanced Placement core classes as part of its curriculum.Ĭarnegie Vanguard's academics have been widely recognized in the country. The school serves grades 9-12 and is part of the Houston Independent School District.
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