Sharpstown High School

Sharpstown High School is a secondary school located at 7504 Bissonnet Street in Greater Sharpstown, Houston, Texas, United States with a zip code of 77074. It serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of the Houston Independent School District. Robert Gasparello is the principal.

The school serves a portion of the community of Sharpstown, which was Houston's first-ever master-planned community. In addition, Sharpstown High School also serves the neighborhoods of Robindell, Braeburn Glen, Braeburn Terrace, Braeburn Valley, Braeburn Valley West, and portions of Fondren Southwest.

International High School, an alternative secondary school, was located within the campus of Sharpstown High School from fall 2007 until fall 2010.

Sharpstown Junior-Senior High School opened in 1968 in the campus now occupied by Sharpstown International School. In 1969, the junior and senior high schools separated, with the senior high going into a new campus.

In 2011 Sharpstown International School took attendance boundaries from Lee High School and Sharpstown High School. As of 2012, Sharpstown International School has no boundary, with Sharpstown High School controlling its former high school boundary.

During the final day of school around 11 a.m. June 2, 1988, three African-American teenagers attacked a White football player in an Algebra class. The fight grew to 100 participants with around 400 students watching the race riot. Sixteen police cars and one helicopter traveled to the school, and police closed Bissonnet Street for 45 minutes. Two students were hospitalized at Southwest Memorial Hospital. Police identified the main perpetrator as a 17-year-old former student who was expelled in 1987. Police said that he, along with two students, armed themselves with a nail-studded stick and a chain and looked for a target in revenge for an incident two months earlier, when a White football player beat two Black students. The Algebra teacher pressed a panic button, but it did not work as they were turned off. The teacher sent a student to report the incident.

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