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Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
Houston, Texas

United States
Coordinates Coordinates: 29°44′14″N95°23′18″W / 29.7372°N 95.3883°W / 29.7372; -95.3883
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TypePublic Arts Magnet High School
Established1971
School districtHouston ISD
PrincipalDr. R Scott Allen
Grades9-12
Enrollment753 (2017-18) [1]
Newspaperhspvapaper
Website hspva.org

Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Kinder HSPVA, HSPVA or PVA) is a secondary school located at 790 Austin Street in the downtown district of Houston, Texas. The school is a part of the Houston Independent School District.

Secondary school building and organization where secondary education is provided

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools can provide both lower secondary education and upper secondary education, but these can also be provided in separate schools, as in the American middle and high school system.

Houston Independent School District school district serving most of Houston, TX and surrounding areas

The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas, and the seventh-largest in the United States. Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and insular municipalities in addition to some unincorporated areas. Like most districts in Texas it is independent of the city of Houston and all other municipal and county jurisdictions. The district has its headquarters in the Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center in Houston.

Contents

The school educates grades nine through twelve. The school is divided into six departments: instrumental music, vocal music, dance, theater (including technical theater), visual arts, and creative writing.

HSPVA was placed as the top school in the Greater Houston Area by Children at Risk's 2009 annual ranking of high schools, [2] and it has continued to be ranked as an "A" grade or higher by Children at Risk. [3] Since 2003, HSPVA has had eight students named US Presidential Scholars in the Arts (Presidential Scholars Program) by the US Department of Education as selected by the National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts). [4]

Children at Risk organization

CHILDREN AT RISK is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that drives change for children through research, education, and influencing public policy. Founded in 1989 in Houston, Texas and with an office opened in North Texas in 2011, the organization focuses on the well-being of children and educates legislators on the importance of key children's issues. While focusing on a variety of issues, the primary issues are human trafficking, food insecurity, education, and parenting. CHILDREN AT RISK also has a North Texas office in Dallas. Some of CHILDREN AT RISK's previous primary issues were juvenile justice, mental health, and Latino children.

Presidential Scholars Program

The United States Presidential Scholars Program is a program of the Department of Education. It is described as "one of the Nation's highest honors for students" in the United States of America and the globe.

The National YoungArts Foundation or YoungArts is an American charity established in 1981 by Lin and Ted Arison to help nurture emerging high-school artists. The foundation is based in Miami, Florida, and alumni of the program have included Timothée Chalamet, Kerry Washington, Matthew Bomer, Billy Porter, Anna Gunn, Andrew Rannells, Zuzanna Szadkoowski, Cote De Pablo, Victor Quinaz, Shalita Grant, Neal Dodson, Viola Davis, Nicki Minaj, Doug Aitken, and Max Schneider.

As a Magnet school, HSPVA does not automatically enroll students from the surrounding neighborhood; the surrounding neighborhood is zoned to Northside High School. [5]

Northside High School (Houston) public secondary school in Houston, Texas, United States

Northside High School, formerly Jefferson Davis High School, is a secondary school located at 1101 Quitman in the Near Northside neighborhood of Northside, Houston, Texas with a ZIP code of 77009. The school was previously named after Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America,

Art areas

There are six art areas: vocal music, instrumental music, dance, theatre, visual art, and creative writing. There are subdivisions within some of these art areas. Instrumental Music breaks down into band, orchestra, jazz, mariachi, and piano. Theatre breaks down into musical theatre, acting, and technical theatre.

History

Plaque located at 790 Austin Street detailing history of the new campus site. HoustonAcademyPlaque.jpg
Plaque located at 790 Austin Street detailing history of the new campus site.

HSPVA was established in 1971. [6]

HISD chose Ruth Denney as the school's founding director. [7] The district asked Denney to choose between three potential sites: W. D. Cleveland Elementary School, Montrose Elementary School, and the former Temple Beth Israel building. After touring them, Denney selected the temple building and in May 1971 the final plans for HSPVA were presented to the school board. [8]

The school moved to 4001 Stanford Street, the site of the former Montrose Elementary School, in 1982.[ citation needed ]

In the 1990s, there was a proposal to move HSPVA to the Bob R. Casey Federal Building in Downtown Houston. [9]

Downtown Houston Neighborhood of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States

Downtown is the largest business district in Houston, Texas, located near the geographic center of the metropolitan area at the confluence of Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69. The 1.84-square-mile (4.8 km2) district, enclosed by the aforementioned highways, contains the original townsite of Houston at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, a point known as Allen's Landing. Downtown has been the city's preeminent commercial district since its founding in 1836.

Plans existed for a new HSPVA building to be located near the Gregory-Lincoln Education Center in Houston's Freedmen's Town Historical District in the Fourth Ward. The new building would have included a 2000+ seat state-of-the-art theater, updated facilities and possibly a recording studio. Construction was temporarily delayed due to the discovery of a possible American Civil War-era cemetery. In June 2007, the project page for the building displayed "CANCELLED." [10] The site that was to have the new HSPVA instead has the new Carnegie Vanguard High School. [11]

Naming discussion

On October 13, 2016, the Houston Independent School District Board of Trustees voted 7 to 2 to accept a naming rights contract from the Kinder Foundation for a $7.5 million for capital improvements to the new facility. [12] The school's name will become Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts when the school moves to the new downtown location. [13] The Kinder funds provide primarily upgrades to theater equipment and some performance spaces, such as outfitting the mini-theater. [12]

The contract was approved by the school board after the Kinder Foundation said it would withdraw the funds if the board did not vote, [14] six days after the public announcement of the deal. [15]

One HISD board member, Jolanda Jones, spoke against the deal, arguing that it was selling out the rights to name a school and that HISD was not giving attention to the non-specialty schools in the district. Jones and Diana Davila were the only board members to vote against the deal. Most speakers at the board meeting, including community members and HSPVA students and parents, supported the deal (17 speakers in favor, 11 against). [16] [17]

In April 2017, in response to a petition asking the Kinders to give the name back, Richard Kinder wrote to the superintendent of Houston Independent School District. Citing negative controversy, he offered to release the naming rights, but did not suggest or request the school's name be restored. [18] The issue is unresolved. By contract, the name change will be effective when the new downtown school building is occupied. [12]

New campus

In January 2019, HSPVA moved from its Montrose campus to the downtown site at 790 Austin Street. [19]

Demographics

The demographics for the 2017 - 2018 school year are listed below. [20]

Race/Ethnicity2016-2017
African American18%
American Indian<1 %
Asian/Pac. Islander9%
Hispanic26%
White45%
Two or More3%

Campus

As of 2014, many students practiced their creative arts in the school hallway due to the small size of the campus. Many Montrose-area residents attended performances even though they do not have children enrolled in the school. Students sometimes traveled to area cafes and restaurants after the official end of the school day but before additional rehearsals. [21]

Admissions patterns

HSPVA has no actual feeder patterns. Since it is a magnet school it takes students from all over HISD and, until recently, from districts outside of HISD. [22]

HSPVA takes students from many HISD middle schools. In addition, some students who are enrolled in private schools in the 8th grade, such as St. Mark's Episcopal School, Presbyterian School, River Oaks Baptist School, John Paul II School, [23] and Annunciation Orthodox School, [24] choose to go to HSPVA for high school. [25] [26] [27] [28]

Notable alumni

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Notes

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  4. ↑ "Awards - U.S. Presidential Scholars Program". ed.gov. August 31, 2016. Retrieved December 31, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Northside Attendance Boundary Map" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "School Information / History". www.houstonisd.org. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
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