Maplewood, Houston
Maplewood is a community in
The Maplewood Civic Club (MCC) is the area civic club.[1]
Maplewood is in Texas's 7th congressional district [1].
History
Around 1988
In April 2010 the City of Houston "automated" curbside recycling program was extended to Maplewood.[3]
Economy
Maplewood Mall, a 94,910-square-foot (8,817 m2) outdoor shopping center, serves neighborhood residents. It opened in 1965 as an
Government and infrastructure
The neighborhood is within the Houston Police Department's Southwest Patrol Division [2].
Education
Maplewood is zoned to
Maplewood is divided between the following elementary schools:
- Braeburn Elementary School[7]
- Herod Elementary School[8]
- Lovett Elementary School[9]
- Sutton Elementary School[10]
Maplewood is divided between the following middle schools:
- Fondren Middle School[11]
- Long Middle School[12]
- Pershing Middle School[13]
- Any portion zoned to Long or Pershing is eligible to apply for Pin Oak Middle School's regular program.[14]
- Any portion zoned to Long or Pershing is eligible to apply for
Areas east of Hillcroft (almost all of Maplewood) are zoned to
Some areas thought as in the "Maplewood area" but are not within the subdivision limits (such as
Prior to the 1980s oil bust Braeburn Elementary school had a middle class, White student body. After the oil bust, Central American immigrants moved into apartment complexes in the northern portion of Braeburn's attendance zone. By the year 1990 only 5% of Braeburn's 1,000 students were White. On April 29, 1992, a petition to have the neighborhood rezoned to Herod, a mostly-White high performing school, circulated in the southern portion of Braeburn's attendance zone. The area board member, Donald R. McAdams, did not support the proposal, and the request was not approved. McAdams, the author of Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- and Winning!: Lessons from Houston, wrote that he did not support the proposal because the area demanding a rezone was across the street from Braeburn to the south and west and that "Moving this neighborhood to Herod would acknowledge that middle-class white [sic] children were not expected to go to a school filled with poor Hispanic children, even when the school was directly across the street."[17] In addition, at that time Herod was overcrowded.[17]
Nearby Catholic schools of the
See also
References
- McAdams, Donald R. Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- and Winning!: Lessons from Houston. ISBN 0807770353, 9780807770351.
Notes
- ^ a b "Home." (Archive) Maplewood Civic Club. Retrieved on November 4, 2013.
- ^ Mintz, Bill. "Residents win fight on Beechnut plan." Houston Chronicle. Wednesday September 21, 1988. Retrieved on August 8, 2011.
- ^ "Residents begin new curbside recycling." Houston Chronicle. April 2, 2010. Retrieved on May 2, 2014.
- ^ Lassin, Arlene Nisson. "Maplewood Mall's new look is official / Facility reopens as an outdoor shopping center." Houston Chronicle. Thursday August 12, 2004. ThisWeek 12. Retrieved on December 1, 2011.
- Harris County Hospital District. 2001-11-19. Archived from the original on 2001-11-19. Retrieved 2021-04-08. - See ZIP code 77096. See this map for relevant ZIP code.
- ^ "Maplewood Section Map." (Archive) Maplewood Civic Club. p. 2. Retrieved on November 4, 2013.
- ^ "Braeburn Elementary Attendance Zone Archived 2008-02-16 at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District.
- ^ "Herod Elementary Attendance Zone Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District.
- ^ "Lovett Elementary Attendance Zone Archived 2012-04-17 at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District.
- ^ "Sutton Elementary Attendance Zone Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District.
- ^ Fondren Middle Attendance Zone Archived 2008-02-16 at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District.
- ^ Long Middle Attendance Zone Archived 2014-04-09 at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District.
- ^ Pershing Middle Attendance Zone Archived 2008-04-11 at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District.
- ^ "Pin Oak Middle School." The Southwest District. Houston Independent School District.
- ^ "Bellaire High School Attendance Zone Archived 2008-02-28 at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on February 27, 2009.
- ^ Sharpstown High Attendance Zone Archived 2012-02-14 at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District.
- ^ a b McAdams, p. 56.
- ^ "Home". St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School. 2001-07-22. Archived from the original on 2001-07-22.
Conveniently situated in the Southwest part of Houston, St. Vincent de Paul School is near [...]Maplewood,[...]