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Northside High School
The building when it was Jefferson Davis High School
Address
1101 Quitman Street Houston, Texas 77009 United States
Coordinates	29°47′00″N 95°21′31″W / 29.78342°N 95.3585°W / 29.78342; -95.3585
Information
Type	Public
School district	Houston Independent School District (Houston ISD)
Staff	77.95 (FTE)
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	1,168 (2022-23)
Student to teacher ratio	14.98
Campus	Urban
Color(s)
Mascot	Panther
Feeder schools	Gregory-Lincoln Education Center (K-8) Travis Elementary School Others listed below
Website	https://www.houstonisd.org/Domain/22301

Northside High School, formerly Jefferson Davis High School, is a secondary school located at 1101 Quitman in the Near Northside neighborhood of Northside, Houston, Texas with a ZIP code of 77009. The school was previously named after Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America.

The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. The mascot of Northside is the Panther.

The school also has a Hotel and Restaurant Management magnet program.

The HISD board voted to give the school its current name in 2016.

History

Davis was previously reserved for white children but it desegregated by 1970.

In 1993, project GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams) was founded at Davis High. The program provides scholarships to students as incentive to complete high school and enroll in college.

Prior to 1996 it was renovated through the Renewal A bond program, which spent $5.5 million on Davis. In 1996 it had 1,800 students.

Campus

In 1996 the school had terrazzo floors. At the time it had one temporary building used for classes and two others for other purposes; it had a fewer number compared to some other schools because it was not overcrowded. In 1996 Terry Kliewer of the Houston Chronicle praised the building's features and maintenance, and stated that it "exemplifies what is possible when an old building gets good maintenance and timely remodeling."

Neighborhoods served by Northside

Northside High School serves Near Northside, Northside Village, Irvington, Lindale Park, a portion of the Fifth Ward, and most of Downtown Houston.

The school serves Irvington Village, a public housing unit and Fulton Village, a mixed-income unit, both of the Houston Housing Authority. The school's boundary also includes the Four Seasons Hotel Houston residences, Houston House Apartments, One Park Place, and The Rice.

Student body

During the 2022-2023 school year, 1,168 students were enrolled at Northside. 94% of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.

• 86.1% Hispanic American
• 12.8% African American
• 0.9% White American
• 0.1% Asian American
• 0.0% Native American
• 0.1% Multiracial

Extracurricular activities

In the summer of 2016, the former JDMB (Jeff Davis Marching Band), was reorganized into the Northside Marching Band. The Panther Band is directed by Timothy D. Richardson, a graduate of Prairie View A&M University, who took over the band program in 2015. The band specializes in show style marching, with certain elements implemented from corps style marching.

In 2015 the Mariachi Pantera had 28 students. It travels out of state. The Pantera had issues with lack of interest in 2014 but had recovered the following year.

Feeder patterns

Elementary schools feeding into Davis include:

• Ketelsen
• Looscan
• Clemente Martinez
• Sherman

Partial:

• Crockett
• Gregory-Lincoln Education Center
• Herrera
• Jefferson
• Ross
• Travis

All of Marshall Middle School's attendance zone is within the Davis High School attendance zone.

Middle schools that have portions of their attendance boundaries zoned to Davis include:

• Burbank
• Fleming
• Gregory-Lincoln MS
• Key

Notable alumni

• Frank Carswell - former Detroit Tigers outfielder and minor-league manager
• Carl Crawford - Major League Baseball outfielder 2002-16, 4-time All-Star
• James DeAnda - former federal judge of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
• Gene Green - Democratic Party member of U.S. House of Representatives
• Ricardo "Rocky" Juarez - 1999 World Champion boxer and Olympic silver medalist
• Slater N. Martin - NBA Basketball player and Hall of Famer, played for Minneapolis Lakers (now Los Angeles Lakers), New York Knicks, and St. Louis Hawks (now Atlanta Hawks).
• Kenny Rogers - country singer
• Jesse Valdez - participant in 1972 Olympic Games

See also

References

1. ^ "NORTHSIDE H S". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
2. "HISD approves name changes for seven schools". KTRK-TV. 2016-05-13. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
3. "Jefferson Davis High School". Houston Independent School District. Archived from the original on 2013-05-09. Retrieved 2008-09-09.
4. Clemons, Tracy. "HISD approves name changes for seven schools" (Archive). KTRK-TV. Thursday May 12, 2016. Retrieved on May 21, 2016.
5. Radcliffe, Jennifer (2006-07-01). "Project GRAD Facing More Challenges". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2008-09-09.
6. ^ Kliewer, Terry (1996-10-08). "Overcrowded, aging facilities a growing problem". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on 1999-10-08. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
7. ^ "Northside High School Attendance Zone" (PDF). Houston Independent School District. Retrieved 2019-04-24.
8. Meeks, Flori. "Near Northside sees past as key to progress." Houston Chronicle. October 16, 2012. Retrieved on December 20, 2012. "Near Northside is bounded by Burnett Street to the south, Interstate 45 to the west, Hardy Street to the East and roughly Cavalcade to the north."
9. "Lindale Park Civic Club Bylaws" (PDF). Lindale Park Civic Club. 1991-12-29. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-06-02. The Lindale Park Civic Club is generally bounded on
10. Fifth Ward, Houston from the Handbook of Texas Online Retrieved on June 25, 2009.
11. "Fulton Village." Houston Housing Authority. Retrieved on January 2, 2018. "3300 Elser Street Houston, Texas 77009"
12. "Irvington Village." Houston Housing Authority. Retrieved on January 2, 2019. "2901 Fulton Houston, Texas 77009"
13. "Private Residences Houston". Four Seasons Hotels. Retrieved 2022-10-14. - This source establishes that the Four Seasons has permanent residences. Address is established here: "1300 Lamar Street, Houston, Texas 77010-3017, USA" - Compare the address to the school district boundary maps.
14. "Home". Houston House Apartments. Retrieved 2022-10-14. 1617 Fannin Houston, TX 77002
15. "Home". One Park Place. Retrieved 2022-10-14. 1400 McKinney Street HOUSTON, TX 77010
16. "Residents". The Rice. Retrieved 2022-10-15. 909 Texas Avenue Houston, TX 77002
17. Alvarez, Olivia Flores. "Meet the 2015 MasterMinds Winners: A Historian, an Artist and a Student Mariachi Orchestra." Houston Press. Tuesday January 20, 2015. Retrieved on January 25, 2015.
18. "Ketelsen Elementary Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
19. "Looscan Elementary Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
20. "Clemente Martinez Elementary Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
21. "Sherman Elementary Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
22. "Crockett Elementary Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
23. "Gregory-Lincoln Elementary Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
24. "Herrera Elementary Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
25. "Jefferson Elementary Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
26. "Ross Elementary Attendance Zone Archived 2006-05-16 at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District.
27. "Travis Elementary Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
28. "Marshall Middle Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
29. "Burbank Middle Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
30. "Fleming Middle Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
31. "Gregory-Lincoln Middle Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
32. "Key Middle Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District.
33. Frank Carswell Statistics and History. Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
34. ^ "Distinguished HISD Alumni". Houston Independent School District. Archived from the original on 2012-02-06.

Further reading

• Campos, Wendy, Cecilia Cruz, Stephen Martin, and Xochitl Vandiver-Rodríguez. "Jefferson Davis High School: The Past and the Present." history paper (for History 3394). May 17, 1994. In the possession of Professor Guadalupe San Miguel of the University of Houston. San Miguel cited the paper in his book, Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston.

External links

• Northside High School
• Davis High School at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

• Houston Independent School District high schools
• Magnet schools in Houston
• Public high schools in Houston