Carter Career Center

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Carter Career Center
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Carter Career Center
1700 Gregg Street

Houston
,
Texas

United States
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School type High school
Established1929 (1929)
Closed2011 (2011)
Grades6-12

Howard P. Carter Career Center was a high school in the Fifth Ward area of Houston, Texas. The school, serving grades 6 through 12, was 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]

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Name

Howard Payne Carter was a teacher and former soldier from Tennessee. He was the first African-American secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association. [4]

History

Carter Career Center was established in 1929. [4]

The campus, built in 1913, originally housed McGowan Elementary School, a school for white children. [5] On January 31, 1927 Wheatley High School first opened at 3415 Lyons Avenue in the former McGowan Elementary School building. [6] In 1949 Wheatley moved into a new campus. [7] 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. [5] Carter Career Center moved to the McGowen/Wheatley/Smith former building. [7]

In 2006, Kay On Going School's separate campus closed and the program moved into Carter Career Center. [3] [8] A $4.5 million addition, funded through a 2004 bond issue, was opened in August 2007. This included culinary classrooms, high-tech laboratories, and a nursing school. [9]

Carter Career Center was closed in 2011. [4] The building was demolished in 2014. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Howard Carter Career Center Archived 2006-05-16 at the Wayback Machine " Profile. Houston Independent School District . Retrieved on November 23, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Partners in education", Training & Development, 1 May 1992.
  3. 1 2 "School Histories Archived July 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine ." Houston Independent School District . Accessed December 2, 2011.
  4. 1 2 3 "General Information / Alternative Schools". www.houstonisd.org. Retrieved April 28, 2025.
  5. 1 2 "School History Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine ." E.O. Smith Education Center. Retrieved on November 10, 2010.
  6. ↑ "History." Wheatley High School. March 22, 2003. Retrieved on July 19, 2009.
  7. 1 2 Berryhill, Michael. "What's Wrong With Wheatley?." Houston Press . April 17, 1997. 2. Retrieved on March 31, 2009.
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ "Career center annex expands options", Janese Heavin, Columbia Daily Tribune, 4 August 2007.
  10. ↑ Mellon, Ericka (December 11, 2014). "Old Wheatley High School demolished". CHRON. Retrieved April 28, 2025.

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