| Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School | |
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United States | |
| Coordinates | 29°43′40″N 95°24′25″W / 29.72778°N 95.40694°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Elementary school |
| Established | 1928 |
| School district | Houston Independent School District |
| Principal | Jeff Amerson |
| Grades | K-5th |
| Communities served | Boulevard Oaks (including Broadacres), Southampton, Shadyside, Neartown (including Montrose), Houston Museum District area, a portion of Riverside Terrace, a portion of Upper Kirby, Greenway Plaza |
| Website | houstonisd.org/Domain/12254 |
| Architect | Harry D. Payne |
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| Part of | Boulevard Oaks Historic District (ID02000117[1]) |
| Designated CP | February 22, 2002 |
Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School is a primary school located at 5100 Hazard Street in Houston, Texas, United States. A part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD), the school, which was built during the 1920s,[2] is located in the Chevy Chase subdivision of the Boulevard Oaks neighborhood west of Rice University.[3] The school, a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) historic district contributing property of Boulevard Oaks,[4] was named after Edgar Allan Poe.
Poe Elementary, as of 2001, had about 700 students. It has bilingual programs for all grade levels and a fine arts magnet program.[5] The 1980 Houston/Harris County Metropolitan Area Southwest-Westpark Corridor Transitway Alternatives: Environmental Impact Statement of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration described Poe as "a thriving, well-integrated magnet school".[6]
From 1974 to 2021 the Poe Cooperative Nursery School (Poe-Co), a privately-operated pre-school, was located on the Poe school grounds; it was established in 1974 in order to revive enrollment at Poe Elementary. It earned National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) accreditation in 1991, making it the first parent cooperative preschool to do so. Poe-Co moved from the Poe Elementary grounds after HISD removed private preschools from public school properties.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Information: Schools Archived 2016-08-26 at the Wayback Machine." Boulevard Oaks. Retrieved on December 4, 2008.
- ^ "Civic Association Architectural Review/Deed Restriction Contacts." Boulevard Oaks. Retrieved on December 25, 2012.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Boulevard Oaks" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
- ^ Galloway, Melissa Bech (October 17, 2001). "At Poe, the 'treat' goes on". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
- ^ Houston/Harris County Metropolitan Area Southwest-Westpark Corridor Transitway Alternatives: Environmental Impact Statement. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1980. p. IV 48.