Alief ISD
| Alief Independent School District | |
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4250 Cook Rd. Houston, Texas ESC Region 4 USA |
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| Coordinates | 29°42′43″N 95°35′48″W / 29.71194°N 95.59667°W |
| District information | |
| Type | Independent school district |
| Motto | Preparing Students for Tomorrow -- Caring for Them Today |
| Grades | Pre-K through 12 |
| Superintendent | H. Chambers |
| Schools | 46 (2009-10) |
| District ID | 4807830 |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 45,768 (2010-11) |
| Teachers | 3,080.77 (2009-10) (on full-time equivalent (FTE) basis) |
| Student-teacher ratio | 14.8 (2009-10) |
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| TEA District Accountability Rating for 2011-12 | Recognized |
| Website | www |
Alief Independent School District is a school district that is based in southwest Houston, Texas, United States.
Alief ISD, which covers 36.6 square miles (94.8 km2) of land, covers a small portion of southwest Houston and parts of unincorporated Harris County. In Houston, Alief ISD serves the Alief community, almost all of the district of Westchase, Keegan's Glen, Leawood, Ashford Park, Bellaire West, and Royal Oaks Country Club. It also serves a small portion of Brays Oaks. In unincorporated Harris County, Alief ISD serves Wingate, portions of the Mission Bend CDP, and Enclave Crescent Park Village [1]. The Alief ISD area is a part of the Houston Community College System tax base.
In 1894, Jacamiah Seaman Daughtery founded the town of Dairy. Until 1906, Addicks, Barker, and Dairy constituted a single School District. From 1906 to 1917, Alief was a Common School District known as Dairy School District #46. In 1917, the district was renamed Alief (since the community was renamed after Alief Ozelda Magee, its postmistress). Alief had only one school until a separate elementary school, Alief Elementary School (now Youens Elementary School), was built in 1964. Bonds passed in the 1960s caused the first modern campuses to open.
In 2011 the Brays Oaks district expanded. A small portion of Alief ISD became a part of the district.
As of the 2010-2011 school year, the appraised valuation of property in the district was $10,678,843,000. The maintenance tax rate was $0.113 and the bond tax rate was $0.022 per $100 of appraised valuation.
In 2011, the school district was rated "recognized" by the Texas Education Agency. Thirty-five percent of districts in Texas in 2011 received the same rating. No state accountability ratings will be given to districts in 2012. A school district in Texas can receive one of four possible rankings from the Texas Education Agency: Exemplary (the highest possible ranking), Recognized, Academically Acceptable, and Academically Unacceptable (the lowest possible ranking).
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