Galveston ISD
| Galveston Independent School District | |
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3904 Avenue T Galveston, TX United States |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1881 by the City of Galveston, 1949 as an Independent School District |
| President | Matthew Hay, Board of Trustees President |
| Head of school | Larry Nichols, Superintendent |
| Grades | Pre-K3 - 12 |
| Number of students | 6700 |
| Website | Galveston Independent School District |
Galveston Independent School District is a school district headquartered in Galveston, Texas, United States.
In 2013, the school district was rated as having "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.
Galveston ISD takes students from the cities of Galveston and Jamaica Beach. Galveston ISD also serves unincorporated areas of Galveston County, including the communities of Port Bolivar and Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula.
Each Galveston ISD house or residential area is assigned to an elementary school and a middle school. In Port Bolivar, the houses and residential areas are zoned to a K-8 center. All high school students in Galveston ISD attend Ball High School.
Galveston College serves the catchment area of Galveston ISD.
In 1881, the citizens of Galveston, authorized by the legislative act of 1879 which specified that all cities of a certain size could initiate and maintain their own school system, organized a public school district and elected a board of trustees. Some 20 teachers were employed to teach students in grades one through seven. Prior to this time, all education in Galveston was private or parochial.
In the summer of 1883, a local dry goods businessman, George Ball, offered to finance construction of new schools. Ball's offer was accepted, and the cornerstone for what would become Ball High School was laid on February 15, 1884. Ball died on March 11, 1884 without seeing his gift completed.Ball High School opened its doors to 200 pupils on October 1, 1884, with a building consisting of 12 classrooms, two offices and an auditorium. According to Gary Cartwright's "Galveston, A History of the Island", two alderman pressured the school board to open the new school to all races. At first, the school board agreed to do that, but changed its mind when Ball's heirs offered to give another $10,000, if the high school was only for white students. Susan Wiley Hardwick's "Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America'a Third Coast" documents that Central High School was opened as a high school for black students in a storefront in 1885. Central High and Ball High merged into one high school in 1968.
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