Carter Career Center

Howard P. Carter Career Center was a high school in the Fifth Ward area of Houston, Texas. The school, serving grades 6 through 12, was a part of the Houston Independent School District.[1] The school served as a vocational school and pregnant girls' school. Carter Career Center had many students who are single parents. It had a day-care center that is supported by corporations, the state, the federal government, and foundations.[2] After the closure of Carter, the building housed the DeVry Advantage Academy.[3]

Carter Career Center

History

The campus, built in 1913, originally housed McGowan Elementary School, a school for white children.[4] On January 31, 1927 Wheatley High School first opened at 3415 Lyons Avenue in the former McGowan Elementary School building.[5] In 1949 Wheatley moved into a new campus.[6] E.O. Smith Education Center opened in the former Wheatley building in 1950. During the beginning of the 1979-1980 school year, E.O. Smith moved into its current facility.[4] Carter Career Center opened in the McGowen/Wheatley/Smith former building.[6]

In 2006, Kay On Going School's separate campus closed and the program moved into Carter Career Center.[3][7] A $4.5 million addition, funded through a 2004 bond issue, was opened in August 2007. This included culinary classrooms, high-tech laboratories, and a nursing school.[8]

References
  1. "Howard Carter Career Center Archived 2006-05-16 at the Wayback Machine" Profile. Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on November 23, 2008.
  2. "Partners in education", Training & Development, 1 May 1992.
  3. "School Histories Archived July 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine." Houston Independent School District. Accessed December 2, 2011.
  4. "School History Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine." E.O. Smith Education Center. Retrieved on November 10, 2010.
  5. "History." Wheatley High School. March 22, 2003. Retrieved on July 19, 2009.
  6. Berryhill, Michael. "What's Wrong With Wheatley?." Houston Press. April 17, 1997. 2. Retrieved on March 31, 2009.
  8. "Career center annex expands options", Janese Heavin, Columbia Daily Tribune, 4 August 2007.

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