Elementary School Magnet Programs
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When it comes to your child's education, you have a lot of choices.The Houston Independent School District prides itself on its many and varied school choice options for students. HISD also remains committed to providing equity in access to high-quality educational programs and instruction. School Choice options include neighborhood schools, Magnet programs, and charter schools. We invite you to take a closer look at HISD. You will see that Houston's public school system offers students a world of great opportunities that will prepare them for success-in college, in careers, and in life.
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Elementary Magnet Choices
Fine Arts and/or Performing and Visual Arts
HISD’s Magnet programs in the fine arts build on academics to give students opportunities for creative expression. Young artists work together to produce high-quality performances, publications, and exhibitions that reflect their understanding of the arts, develop their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, and enhance their self-esteem.
Dual Language Programs
HISD is rich with diversity, mirroring Houston. Our specialty schools — dual language, language immersion, International Baccalaureate, and internationally focused high schools — offer students the opportunity for broader language study, multicultural explorations, and the skills to function smoothly in a shrinking global environment.
Dual language campuses promote instruction in two languages as equally important, giving English speakers the gift of bilingualism and allowing English-as-a-second-language students to retain their own language while mastering English.Vanguard Magnet (Gifted and Talented)
HISD’s Vanguard magnet programs serve students who have been identified as gifted and/or talented in intellectual ability or creativity. Vanguard curricula are both accelerated and enriched, and are continually rigorous throughout a student’s academic life. At Carnegie Vanguard, the district’s only Vanguard high school, students must take pre-AP and AP courses in all four core areas plus a foreign language each year.
International Baccalaureate
International Baccalaureate schools offer challenging educational programs for students to help develop their intellectual, personal, emotional, and social skills to learn, work, and live comfortably and productively as a citizen of the world. The rigorous and broad IB program empowers students to become dedicated, lifelong, bilingual and biliterate learners who embrace multiculturalism and diversity.
IB schools operate through a nonprofit international foundation that authorizes IB status through an extensive process including teacher training, an IB-team visit, curriculum review, and interviews throughout the school community.Montessori
HISD’s Montessori schools use century-old techniques emphasizing highly personalized learning for each child to develop his/her own interests and full potential. Every classroom is equipped with special materials designed to work with the whole child to develop social skills, emotional growth, physical coordination, and cognition. Class communities emphasize both independent, purposeful work and collaborative explorations.
STEM/STEAM
Students have the opportunity for in-depth, process-oriented studies of STEM disciplines in conjunction with a strong academic program. These studies develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills through relevant and meaningful STEM explorations. Student centered learning emphasizes “hands-on” activities with real world applications.
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Elementary Magnet Campuses by Theme
Fine Arts and/or Performing and Visual Arts
STEM
- Red
- Rice School
- Ross
- Shadowbriar
(STEAM) - Sinclair
- Stevens
- Valley West
(Math & Science) - Wainwright
- Wesley
- Whidby
International Baccalaureate
Literature
Languages
Montessori
Physical Development
Vanguard (Gifted and Talented)
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Elementary Magnet Coordinators
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Coordinator
Arabic Immersion Magnet School Adavion Wayne Phone: 713-556-8940 | 713-556-8944 (fax) Adavion.Wayne@houstonisd.org Address: 4001 Stanford, Houston, TX 77006 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Askew Elementary Scott Bounds Phone: 281-368-2100 | 281-368-2103 (fax) sbounds@houstonisd.org Address: 11200 Wood Lodge Houston, TX 77077-4237 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Atherton Elementary Angelanet Allen Phone: 713-671-4100 | 713-671-4104 (fax) aallen17@houstonisd.org Address: 2011 Solo Street Houston, TX 77020 Magnet Thursday: Bell Elementary Milagro Sasmita Phone: 281-983-2800 | 281-983-2802 (fax) MSASMITA@houstonisd.org Address: 12323 Shaftsbury Drive Houston, TX 77031-3199 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Berry Elementary Yadira Suriano Phone: 713-696-2700 | 713-696-2701 (fax) ysuriano@houstonisd.org Address: 2310 Berry Road Houston, TX 77093-7418 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Blackshear Elementary Alisha Howard Phone: 713-942-1481 | 713-942-1486 (fax) AHOWARD6@houstonisd.org Address: 2900 Holman Houston, TX 77004-3240 Magnet Thursday: Bruce Elementary Jennifer Mills Phone: 713-226-4560 | 713-226-4562 (fax) jmills2@houstonisd.org Address: 510 Jensen Drive Houston, TX 77020-5834 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Burbank Elementary Cindy Vu Phone: 713-696-2690 | 713-696-2691 (fax) cvu1@houstonisd.org Address: 216 Tidwell Houston, TX 77022-2046 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Burrus Elementary Erin Green Phone: 713-867-5180 | 713-867-5182 (fax) EGREEN7@houstonisd.org Address: 701 East 33rd Street Houston, TX 77022-5199 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Carrillo Elementary Edith Santiago Phone: 713-924-1870 | 713-924-1873 (fax) esantiag@houstonisd.org Address: 960 South Wayside Drive Houston, TX 77023-3412 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Codwell Elementary Dawn Buie Phone: 713-732-3580 | 713-732-3582 (fax) dawn.buie@houstonisd.org Address: 4103 Brisbane St Houston, TX 77047-1701 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Cook Elementary Christopher Perkins Phone: 713-636-6040 | 713-636-6088 (fax) CPERKIN4@houstonisd.org Address: 7115 Lockwood Houston, TX 77016-7027 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Cornelius Elementary Natasha Putman Phone: 713-845-7405 | 713-845-7448 (fax) nputman@houstonisd.org Address: 7475 Westover Houston, TX 77087-6113 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Crespo Elementary Nora De Leon Phone: 713-845-7492 | 713-847-4716 (fax) NDELEON2@houstonisd.org Address: 7500 Office City Drive Houston, TX 77012-4115 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Crockett Elementary Alex Guerra Phone: 713-802-4780 | 713-802-4783 (fax) AGUERRA6@houstonisd.org Address: 2122 Crockett St Houston, TX 77007-6327 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Davila Elementary Daniel Garza Phone: 713-924-1851 | 713-924-1853 Daniel.Garza@houstonisd.org Address: 7610 Dahlia St. Houston, TX 77012-3005 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting De Zavala Elementary Aurora DeLuna Phone: 713-924-1888 | 713-924-1891 (fax) ADELUNA1@houstonisd.org Address: 7521 Avenue H Houston, TX 77012-1199 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Durham Elementary Axinia Zepeda Phone: 713-613-2527 | 713-613-2515 (fax) azepeda1@houstonisd.org Address: 4803 Brinkman Houston, TX 77018-2021 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Elrod Elementary Wendy Tovar Phone: 713-778-3330 | 713-778-3333 (fax) WTOVAR@houstonisd.org Address: 6230 Dumfries Houston, TX 77096-4603 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Garden Oaks Montessori Laura Aasletten Phone: 713-696-2930 | 713-696-2932 (fax) laaslett@houstonisd.org Address: 901 Sue Barnett Houston, TX 77018-5415 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Garden Villas Elementary Amisha Blake Phone: 713-845-7484 | 713-847-4714 (fax) ablake1@houstonisd.org Address: 7185 Santa Fe Houston, TX 77061-2621 Magnet Thursday: Gregory Lincoln Middle School Fine Arts Thomas Porter Phone: 713-942-1400 | 713-942-1406 (fax) Thomas.Porter@houstonisd.org Address: 1101 Taft Houston, TX 77019-4598 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Hartsfield Elementary Chante' Gary Phone: 713-746-8280 | 713-746-8283 (fax) Chante.Gary@houstonisd.org Address: 5001 Perry Houston, TX 77021-3515 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Harvard Elementary Jessica Berry Phone: 713-867-5210 | 713-867-5215 (fax) Jessica.Berry@houstonisd.org Address: 810 Harvard Houston, TX 77007-1607 Magnet Thursday: Website Helms Elementary Julie Hernandez Phone: 713-867-5130 | 713-867-5133 (fax) jhernan2@houstonisd.org Address: 503 West 21st Street Houston, TX 77008-1943 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Herod Elementary Todd Paulus Phone: 713-778-3315 | 713-778-3317 (fax) tpaulus@houstonisd.org Address: 5627 Jason Houston, TX 77096-2110 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Herrera Elementary Melody Vizi Phone: 713-696-2800 | 713-696-2804 (fax) mvizi@houstonisd.org Address: 525 Bennington Houston, TX 77022-4911 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Kashmere Gardens Elementary Wanda Byrd Phone: 713-671-4160 | 713-671-4163 (fax) Wanda.Byrd@houstonisd.org Address: 4901 Lockwood Houston, TX 77026-2942 Magnet Thursday: Kolter Elementary Kathleen Crossett Phone: 713-726-3630 | 713-726-3663 (fax) kathleen.crossett@houstonisd.org Address: 9710 Runnymeade Houston, TX 77096-4220 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting/a> Lantrip Elementary Amber Akhtar Phone: 713-924-1670 | 713-924-1672 (fax) Amber.Akhtar@houstonisd.org Address: 100 Telephone Road Houston, TX 77023-1899 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Lockhart Elementary Dennis Jackson Phone: 713-942-1950 | 713-942-1953 (fax) djacks14@houstonisd.org Address: 3200 Rosedale Street Houston, TX 77004-7911 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Longfellow Elementary Andrea Pennington Phone: 713-295-5268 | 713-295-5257 (fax) apennin1@houstonisd.org Address: 3617 Norris Houston, TX 77025-3600 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Lovett Elementary Cara Boynton Phone: 713-295-5258 | 713-295-5291 (fax) cboynton@houstonisd.org Address: 8814 South Rice Houston, TX 77096-2622 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting MacGregor Elementary Marcie Coleman Phone: 713-942-1990 | 713-942-1993 (fax) MCOLEMON@houstonisd.org Address: 4801 LaBranch Houston, TX 77004-5650 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Mandarin Immersion Magnet School Xian Xia Phone: 713-295-5276 | 713-662-3527 (fax) Xian.Xia@houstonisd.org Address: 5445 W. Alabama, 77056-2622 Magnet Thursday: Join a meeting Join a meeting Oak Forest Elementary Carrie Botello Phone: 713-613-2536 | 713-613-2244 (fax) cbotell1@houstonisd.org Address: 1401 West 43rd Houston, TX 77018-4198 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Parker Elementary Carol Kehlenbrink Phone: 713-726-3634 | 713-726-3660 (fax) ckehlenb@houstonisd.org Address: 10626 Atwell Houston, TX 77096-4925 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Patterson Elementary Chandra Reed Phone: 713-943-5750 | 713-943-5755 (fax) Chandra.Reed@houstonisd.org Address: 5302 Allendale Houston, TX 77017-6214 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Poe Elementary Sara Williams Phone: 713-535-3780 | 713-535-3784 (fax) swillia2@houstonisd.org Address: 5100 Hazard Houston, TX 77098-5396 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Pugh Elementary Alicia Gray Phone: 713-671-3820 | 713-671-3825 (fax) alicia.gray@houstonisd.org Address: 1147 Kress Houston, TX 77020-7416 Magnet Thursday: JWebsite Join the Meeting Red Elementary LaFoscia Maxie Phone: 713-726-3638 | 713-726-3698 (fax) lmaxie@houstonisd.org Address: 4520 Tonawanda Houston, TX 77035-3716 Magnet Thursday: Join a meeting Join a meeting Rice Sch La Escuela Vickie Matson Phone: 713-349-1800 | 713-349-1828 (fax) vmatson@houstonisd.org Address: 7550 Seuss Drive Houston, TX 77025-2271 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting River Oaks Elementary Jana Bomersbach Phone: 713-942-1460 | 713-942-1463 (fax) JBOMERS1@houstonisd.org Address: 2008 Kirby Houston, TX 77019-6016 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Roosevelt Elementary Elba Carrion Phone: 713-696-2820 | 713-696-2821 (fax) Elba.Carrion@houstonisd.org Address: 6700 Fulton Houston, TX 77022-5499 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Ross Elementary Emily Medrano Phone: 713-226-4550 | 713-226-4554 (fax) emedrano@houstonisd.org Address: 2819 Bay Houston, TX 77026-3203 Magnet Thursday: Scroggins Elementary Vanessa Deyoung Phone: 713-671-4130 | 713-671-4133 (fax) VDEYOUNG@houstonisd.org Address: 400 Boyles Houston, TX 77020-5299 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Shadowbriar Elementary Brad Zimmerman Phone: 281-368-2160 | 281-368-2170 (fax) bzimmerm@houstonisd.org Address: 2650 Shadowbriar Houston, TX 77077-6000 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Sinclair Elementary Linh Hoang Phone: 713-867-5161 | 713-867-5162 (fax) LHOANG2@houstonisd.org Address: 6410 Grovewood Houston, TX 77008-3222 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Stevens Elementary Julie Woods Phone: 713-613-2546 | 713-613-2541 (fax) JWOODS8@houstonisd.org Address: 1910 LaMonte Houston, TX 77018-4619 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting T H Rogers School Barbra Hearne Phone: 713-917-3565 | 713-917-3555 (fax) bhearne@houstonisd.org Address: 5840 San Felipe Houston, TX 77057-3059 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Travis Elementary Sara Lytle Phone: 713-802-4790 | 713-802-4795 (fax) slytle@houstonisd.org Address: 3311 Beauchamp Houston, TX 77009-6699 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Valley West Elementary Erica Rudolph Phone: 713-773-6151 | 713-773-6156 (fax) erudolph@houstonisd.org Address: 10707 South Gessner Houston, TX 77071-3507 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Wainwright Elementary Tiffany Moody Phone: 713-613-2550 | 713-613-2549 (fax) tmoody1@houstonisd.org Address: 5330 Milwee Houston, TX 77092-6655 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Wesley Elementary Sarah Henry Phone: 713-696-2860 | 713-696-2866 Sarah.Henry@houstonisd.org Address: 800 Dillard Houston, TX 77091-2302 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Wharton K-8 Dual Language Syreeta Lazarus Phone: 713-535-3771 | 713-535-3772 (fax) Syreeta.Lazarus@houstonisd.org Address: 900 West Gray Houston, TX 77019-4226 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Whidby Elementary Angelica Bentley Phone: 713-746-8170 | 713-746-8173 (fax) Angelica.Bentley@houstonisd.org Address: 7625 Springhill Houston, TX 77021-6033 Magnet Thursday: Wilson Montessori Krystal Perkins Phone: 713-942-1470 | 713-942-1472 (fax) kmcguire@houstonisd.org Address: 2100 Yupon Houston, TX 77006-1830 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting Windsor Village Elementary Danielle Arriola Phone: 713-726-3642 | 713-726-3647 (fax) darriol1@houstonisd.org Address: 14440 Polo Houston, TX 77085-3399 Magnet Thursday: Website Join the Meeting