Gregory-Lincoln Education Center

Gregory-Lincoln Education Center
Location
Map
1101 Taft Houston, TX 77019

United States
Coordinates29°45′22″N 95°23′06″W / 29.7562492°N 95.385022899°W / 29.7562492; -95.385022899
Information
TypeK-8 school
School districtHouston Independent School District
Superintendent.
Faculty46.39 (FTE)[1]
GradesK-8
Enrollment726 (2017-18)[1]
Student to teacher ratio15.65[1]
Communities servedFourth Ward, Montrose, Midtown, Downtown
Websitehoustonisd.org/glec

Edgar Gregory-Abraham Lincoln Education Center[2] (GLEC) is a K-8 school located at 1101 Taft in the Fourth Ward area of Houston, Texas, United States.[3] Gregory-Lincoln is a part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and has a fine arts magnet program that takes students in both the elementary and middle school levels. Originally built in 1966 as Lincoln Junior and Senior High School, it later operated as Lincoln Junior High School until Gregory Elementary School merged into it in 1980, forming Gregory-Lincoln. The school moved into its current building in 2008; the rebuilding was delayed due to concerns that U.S. Civil War-era graveyards would be disturbed by the rebuilding process.

One namesake is Edgar M. Gregory, an officer in the Union army in the U.S. Civil War and the assistant commissioner of the Texas area's Freedmen's Bureau.[4] The other is Abraham Lincoln.[5]

  1. ^ a b c "GREGORY-LINCOLN ED CTR". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  2. ^ "State of the Schools Annual Report 2007." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on April 18, 2018. p. 25/27.
  3. ^ "About". Gregory-Lincoln Education Center. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  4. ^ "History of the Gregory School and Freedmen's Town." African American Library at the Gregory School. Retrieved on December 11, 2009.
  5. ^ "School Histories Elementary/Middle School Combinations". Houston Independent School District. Retrieved 2019-08-29.