Wheatley High School (Houston)

Wheatley High School
Wheatley High School
Location
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Coordinates29°46′17″N 95°19′11″W / 29.7713°N 95.31982°W / 29.7713; -95.31982
Information
Opened1927
School boardHouston Independent School District
Teaching staff54.36 (FTE)[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment969 (2017-18)[1]
Student to teacher ratio17.83[1]
Campus size14 acres (5.7 ha)
Campus typeUrban
Color(s)     
Team nameWildcats
Last updated: 29 December 2017

Phillis Wheatley High School is a secondary school located at 4801 Providence Street in Houston, Texas, United States with a ZIP code of 77020. Wheatley is a part of the Houston Independent School District. Wheatley, named after Phillis Wheatley, is located inside the 610 Loop in the Fifth Ward.

Wheatley has a technology magnet program inherited from the closure of Middle College for Technology Careers in spring 2006; Wheatley's program began in fall 2006.

In 1979, Wheatley principal Charles Herbert said that "For many, Fifth Ward is Wheatley High School" and that African-Americans who grew up in the Fifth Ward "still cling closely to Wheatley" even after they had moved to other parts of the United States.[2]

  1. ^ a b c WHEATLEY H S
  2. ^ West, Richard. "Only the Strong Survive" (Archive). Texas Monthly. Emmis Communications, February 1979. Volume 7, No. 2. ISSN 0148-7736. START: p. 94. CITED: p. 178.