Carter Career Center
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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."[http://dept.houstonisd.org/profiles/Carterco.pdf Howard Carter Career Center] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060516074725/http://dept.houstonisd.org/profiles/Carterco.pdf# |date=2006-05-16 }}" Profile. Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on November 23, 2008. 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.[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9259546_ITM "Partners in education"], Training & Development, 1 May 1992. After the closure of Carter, the building housed the DeVry Advantage Academy."[http://www.houstonisd.org/HISDConnectDS/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=0afe09c28afc3110VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD&vgnextchannel=2e2b2f796138c010VgnVCM10000052147fa6RCRD School Histories] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710153727/http://www.houstonisd.org/HISDConnectDS/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=0afe09c28afc3110VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD&vgnextchannel=2e2b2f796138c010VgnVCM10000052147fa6RCRD |date=July 10, 2011 }}." Houston Independent School District. Accessed December 2, 2011.
History
The campus, built in 1913, originally housed McGowan Elementary School, a school for white children."[http://www.eosmithedcenter.org/about/history.jsp School History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726032941/http://www.eosmithedcenter.org/about/history.jsp |date=2011-07-26 }}." E.O. Smith Education Center. Retrieved on November 10, 2010. On January 31, 1927 Wheatley High School first opened at 3415 Lyons Avenue in the former McGowan Elementary School building."[https://web.archive.org/web/20030322121415/http://hs.houstonisd.org/wheatleyhs/history/ History]." Wheatley High School. March 22, 2003. Retrieved on July 19, 2009. In 1949 Wheatley moved into a new campus.Berryhill, Michael. "What's Wrong With Wheatley?." Houston Press. April 17, 1997. [http://www.houstonpress.com/1997-04-17/news/what-s-wrong-with-wheatley/2 2]. Retrieved on March 31, 2009. 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. Carter Career Center opened in the McGowen/Wheatley/Smith former building.
In 2006, Kay On Going School's separate campus closed and the program moved into Carter Career Center.
- [http://hs.houstonisd.org/CarterHS/ Home Page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829205207/http://hs.houstonisd.org/CarterHS/ |date=2008-08-29 }}. Carter Career Center. Retrieved on November 23, 2008.
- {{Handbook of Texas|id=hpfhk|name=Fifth Ward, Houston}} 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.[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32549270_ITM "Career center annex expands options"], Janese Heavin, Columbia Daily Tribune, 4 August 2007.
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Category:Defunct schools in the Houston Independent School District
Category:Houston Independent School District high schools
Category:Former high schools in Houston
Category:Public high schools in Houston
Category:Educational institutions disestablished in 2011
Category:School buildings completed in 1913