Carnegie Vanguard High School
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1501 Taft Street Houston, Texas 77019 United States |
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| Coordinates | Coordinates: 29°45′14″N 95°23′08″W / 29.754°N 95.3855°W |
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| Type | Public Magnet School |
| Opened | 2002 |
| School district | Houston Independent School District |
| Superintendent | Richard Carranza |
| Area trustee | Diana Dávila |
| CEEB code | 443541 |
| Principal | Ramon Moss |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 640 (2016-2017) |
| Schedule | All Classes Daily |
| Color(s) | Red, White, & Blue |
| Sports | Limited |
| Mascot | Rhino |
| USNWR ranking | No. 8 (2017) |
| Information | No Uniform |
| Website | www |
Andrew Carnegie Vanguard High School, named after Andrew Carnegie, is located in the Fourth Ward of Houston, Texas near downtown and was formerly located in Sunnyside. The school serves grades 9-12 and is part of the Houston Independent School District. It is the only High School Vanguard Program in HISD meaning that all students are labelled as gifted and talented by testing and the school has students take all Advanced Placement core classes as part of its curriculum.
Carnegie Vanguard’s rigorous academics have been widely recognized in the country. For the past several years, Carnegie Vanguard has been consistently ranked the top ranked public high school in the Houston area and a top 25 public high school in the country by several major magazines and journals including Newsweek, Washington Post, and US News and World Report.
The HISD Vanguard program was designed to serve the needs of gifted and talented students. From fall 1977 to spring 2002, the HISD High School Vanguard Program was a separate program located at Jesse Jones High School. It is one of the many Magnet schools in HISD designed to attract a diverse ethnicity of students by former HISD Superintendent Billy Regan.
The reinstatement of Lawrence Allen, the Jones HS principal, who was put in charge of the comprehensive program at Jones, prompted the HISD Vanguard program separation.
Carnegie Vanguard High School opened in August 2002 in the former Carnegie Elementary School building on Scott Street and Airport Boulevard near the Sunnyside neighborhood. Carnegie began its first year as a separate school (2002–2003) with 173 students. The elementary school students who attended Carnegie Elementary were moved to Woodson Middle School, which became the Woodson K-8 School.
In November 2008, HISD proposed to rebuild Carnegie and Worthing and have the two schools share the same cafeteria. Parents at Worthing accepted the proposal while parents at Carnegie asked for the proposal to be discontinued due to high violence levels at Worthing. On December 4, 2008, Abelardo Saavedra, the HISD superintendent at the time, shelve plans of Carnegie and Worthing sharing cafeterias since the proposal had insufficient support from the board of trustees.
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