Carter Career Center

Carter Career Center

Howard P. Carter Career Center was a high school located in the Fifth Ward area of Houston, Texas, United States. The school, serving grades 6 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District.[1] The school served as a vocational school and pregnant girls' school. Carter Career Center had many students who are single parents. It had a day-care center that is supported by corporations, the state, the federal government, and foundations.[2] After the closure of Carter, the building housed the DeVry Advantage Academy.[3]

History

The campus, built in 1913, originally housed McGowan Elementary School, a school for White children.[4] On January 31, 1927 Wheatley High School first opened at 3415 Lyons Avenue in the former McGowan Elementary School building.[5] In 1949 Wheatley moved into a new campus.[6] E.O. Smith Education Center opened in the former Wheatley building in 1950. During the beginning of the 1979-1980 school year, E.O. Smith moved into its current facility.[4] Carter Career Center opened in the McGowen/Wheatley/Smith former building.[6]

In 2006, Kay On Going School's separate campus closed and the program moved into Carter Career Center.[7][8][9] A $4.5 million addition, funded through a 2004 bond issue, was opened in August 2007. This includes culinary classrooms, high-tech laboratories, and a nursing school.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Howard Carter Career Center" Profile. Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on November 23, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Partners in education", Training & Development, 1 May 1992.
  3. ↑ "School Histories Archived July 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.." Houston Independent School District. Accessed December 2, 2011.
  4. 1 2 "School History." E.O. Smith Education Center. Retrieved on November 10, 2010.
  5. ↑ "History." Wheatley High School. March 22, 2003. Retrieved on July 19, 2009.
  6. 1 2 Berryhill, Michael. "What's Wrong With Wheatley?." Houston Press. April 17, 1997. 2. Retrieved on March 31, 2009.
  7. ↑ "School Histories: the Stories Behind the Names Archived July 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on September 24, 2008.
  8. ↑ Home Page. Carter Career Center. Retrieved on November 23, 2008.
  9. ↑ Fifth Ward, Houston from the Handbook of Texas Online
  10. ↑ "Career center annex expands options", Janese Heavin, Columbia Daily Tribune, 4 August 2007.
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