| Jack Yates High School | |
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| Address | |
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3650 Alabama Street , 77004 United States | |
| Coordinates | 29°43′22″N 95°21′17″W / 29.7228°N 95.35467°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | February 8, 1926 |
| School district | Houston Independent School District |
| Principal | Stephanie Square[1] |
| Teaching staff | 51.49 (FTE)[2] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 879 (2018–19)[2] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 17.07:1[2] |
| Color(s) | Crimson and Gold |
| Nickname | "Tha Yard" |
| Team name | Lions |
| Website | houstonisd |
Jack Yates Senior High School is a public high school located at 3650 Alabama Street, very near Texas Southern University, in the historic Third Ward in Houston, Texas. Yates High School handles grades nine through twelve and is part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD).
Yates was named after Reverend John Henry "Jack" Yates, a former slave and a minister.[3] Jack Yates and other leading blacks established the Houston Baptist Academy. Within a decade, the success of the school prompted Reverend Yates to reorganize the Houston Baptist Academy as the Houston College, the school offered a special opportunity to the black children of the community who sought an alternative to the Colored High School of the public school system.
Yates has HISD's magnet program for communications: broadcast TV, radio, print, and photography. Yates also houses a maritime studies magnet program.[4]
In 2010, Paul Knight of the Houston Press wrote that "the school remains a symbol of solidarity in the Third Ward."[5]
In June 2016, members of the Jack Yates and HISD communities held a ground-breaking ceremony for the new campus. A $59.4 million campus was completed next to the old campus in summer 2018.[6]
- ^ González Kelly, Sam (July 25, 2023). "HISD's Miles appoints Yates alumna, former teacher as new principal of the Third Ward school". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ a b c "YATES H S". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
- ^ "YATES, JOHN HENRY Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine." Handbook of Texas Online.
- ^ "WELCOME TO JACK YATES MAGNET". Housont Independent School District. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
- ^ Knight, Paul. "Third Ward High." Houston Press. Wednesday April 7, 2010. p. 2 Archived April 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on April 2, 2014. "All but two of the Yates players grew up in the Third Ward."
- ^ Communications, HISD (June 2, 2016). "Yates High School community celebrates ceremonial groundbreaking for new school".