North Forest High School
| North Forest High School | |
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10725 Mesa Drive Houston, Texas 77078 United States |
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| Coordinates | 29°52′10″N 95°15′53″W / 29.869473°N 95.264632°WCoordinates: 29°52′10″N 95°15′53″W / 29.869473°N 95.264632°W |
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| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 2008 |
| School district | Houston Independent School District |
| Principal | Richard Fernandez |
| Faculty | 61 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1028 (2013-2014) |
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| Team name | Bulldogs |
| Website | Official Website |
North Forest High School (NFHS) is a secondary school located in Houston, Texas, United States. The school is a part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD); it was a part of the North Forest Independent School District (NFISD) until the district closed on July 1, 2013.
Founded in 2008 as a consolidation of Forest Brook High School at 7525 Tidwell Road and M. B. Smiley High School on Mesa Drive, the school was originally located on the campus of the former Forest Brook High School.
The Smiley campus was built in 1953, the Oak Village campus was built in 1967, and the Forest Brook campus was built in 1972. In September of that year Hurricane Ike hit Houston and Forest Brook was damaged. Therefore, the school was relocated to the former Smiley campus.
In the 2010-2011 school year, NFISD opened the Ninth Grade Center at the former Oak Village Middle School campus. It opened under the direction of the Texas Education Agency (TEA)-appointed manager George McShan. The Ninth Grade Center housed newly arrived ninth graders. People repeating the ninth grade attended the main campus of North Forest High School.
In January 2012 an 18-year-old male student shot a 16-year-old male student. The perpetrator evaded the school's usage of metal detectors for incoming students. After the shooting, the school began requiring all students to have transparent backpacks. NFISD planned to extend the school's metal detector hours to 10 AM.
Jennifer Radcliffe of the Houston Chronicle wrote in 2014 that "The way students and administrators tell it, the campus had spiraled out of control during North Forest ISD's decline." The NFHS Class of 2014 (12th graders) had, in their high school careers, a different principal for each grade. After Pam Farinas took over the position of the school principal in 2013, a university outside of Texas told her that it did not recruit students from North Forest High. This principal told Farinas that the school should have a new name. Around 2014, organizations had decined requests from North Forest High for field trips.
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