My son's wonderful middle school

[Shelly]

One is leaving and one is starting next year. I told my oldest to find out who it was. I didn't even know about it until yesterday.

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=8ece64b5-85c7-4014-8e26-698940e7ab95&rss=68

[jman3000]

i went to stevenson... we roll hard like that.

fuck that was a long time ago...

[Shelly]

They do call it the ghetto school now. It's waaaaayyy overrcrowded, and the new M.S. that's gonna open up isn't really gonna relieve it.

I guess it all started at Stevens HS. Then on Monday during that big morning storm, Stevenson's principal pulled all the classes from the portables and made them go to the cafeteria and a rumor about a gun was the reason why.

Of course, my son never said a word since he didn't take it seriously.

[FromWayDowntown]

I went to Stevenson, too -- Wildcat Pride, baby! In fact, my name is probably still on a championship board in the boys' gym.

Of course when I was there, the school hadn't even been open for 10 years and was in the middle of nowhere.

[jman3000]

i think they had just started to put portables up my 7th grade year... i remember because it fucked up the route for the mile run.

i can't imagine how many kids go their now... because it was a shitload when i went.

[Shelly]

i think they had just started to put portables up my 7th grade year... i remember because it fucked up the route for the mile run.

i can't imagine how many kids go their now... because it was a shitload when i went.

Over 1800.

O'Connor will be over 3400 kids next year. I'm still not sure if we will be switching to Brandeis next year

[jman3000]

damn... it's bigger than a lot of high schools :lol

it's really not that big of a school either... unless they added some buildings, which i recall they did on the guilbeau side.

[Shelly]

They probably did, but not recently. A lot of portables, though. Braun Station ES opened up a new building last.

I guess years ago there was a bond to build a new MS to relieve Stevenson, but it didn't pass.

[Trainwreck2100]

I went to private school

[T-Pain]

i broke my arm at stevenson playing football for rudder, lol! damn stevenson has about 800 more kids than the total population at my high school! (I graduated from 4A Fredericksburg High...Billie Pride! uber alles!!!!)

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Texans poop out way too many kids it appears to me.

[Shelly]

Northside is out of control!

[T-Pain]

Northside is out of control!
really? what about the elementary school kid that brought a gun to school (or somethin like that) on the west side of town?

[jman3000]

any elrod elementary grads in the house?


i can still recite our school song by memory... it was pretty bad ass.
:lol

[T-Pain]

any elrod elementary grads in the house?


i can still recite our school song by memory... it was pretty bad ass.
:lol
lol i went to fernandez from K-2 and thornton from 3-5

[Shelly]

really? what about the elementary school kid that brought a gun to school (or somethin like that) on the west side of town?

I'm talking about the growth of NISD

[T-Pain]

I'm talking about the growth of NISD
sorry, thought you were talkin about the hitlist

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Linton, Sul Ross and Holmes, mufuckas!

[Shelly]

Texans poop out way too many kids it appears to me.


Nah...I blame KB Homes and Pulte. :lol

[Big P]

KSAT just reported that some students responsible for the threats have been arrested. Other students turned them in.

[Shelly]

KSAT just reported that some students responsible for the threats have been arrested. Other students turned them in.

Good!

I'm glad that Stevenson took this seriously.

[Kori Ellis]

Over 1800.

O'Connor will be over 3400 kids next year. I'm still not sure if we will be switching to Brandeis next year

I think you will switch to Brandeis.

[Shelly]

I think you will switch to Brandeis.

I've heard yes and no. My friend's husband is a principal in Northside and he hasn't heard either way yet either.

Seniors will be grandfathered in at OC and I think Juniors have the option...especially if they are involved in school sports, etc.

[FromWayDowntown]

I'm talking about the growth of NISD

It's been crazy in the 20 years or so since I was a middle schooler. When I started Middle School at Stevenson, there were 8 middle schools in the district (Stevenson, Rudder, Hobby, Neff, Anson Jones, Pease, Sam Rayburn, and Sul Ross). Now there are 14. There were 4 high schools in the Northside district when I started middle school (Marshall, Holmes, Jay, and Clark). Now there are 10.

When I started at Stevenson, the attendance zone for the school was basically defined by Bandera Road, running out what is now Mainland Road to Heath Road, cutting over on Heath to Grissom, going out Grissom/Culebra to 1604 and then back to Bandera, but including all of Helotes as far out as San Antonio Ranch. At that, the school probably had fewer than 1,500 students and was housed entirely in one building with about 3 portables at most.

Now that same area is served by at least 4 middle schools (Stevenson, Zachry, Stinson, and Jefferson (when it opens). Amazing.

[T-Pain]

I've heard yes and no. My friend's husband is a principal in Northside and he hasn't heard either way yet either.

Seniors will be grandfathered in at OC and I think Juniors have the option...especially if they are involved in school sports, etc.
how many more high schools is northside coming out with?

[jman3000]

It's been crazy in the 20 years or so since I was a middle schooler. When I started Middle School at Stevenson, there were 8 middle schools in the district (Stevenson, Rudder, Hobby, Neff, Anson Jones, Pease, Sam Rayburn, and Sul Ross). Now there are 14. There were 4 high schools in the Northside district when I started middle school (Marshall, Holmes, Jay, and Clark). Now there are 10.

When I started at Stevenson, the attendance zone for the school was basically defined by Bandera Road, running out what is now Mainland Road to Heath Road, cutting over on Heath to Grissom, going out Grissom/Culebra to 1604 and then back to Bandera, but including all of Helotes as far out as San Antonio Ranch. At that, the school probably had fewer than 1,500 students and was housed entirely in one building with about 3 portables at most.

Now that same area is served by at least 4 middle schools (Stevenson, Zachry, Stinson, and Jefferson (when it opens). Amazing.


you're forgetting about connally middle school which is about 5 minutes down tezel from stevenson. i'm almost certain there's another one in there too.

[Shelly]

Stinson is capped, I believe.

T-Pain, Brandeis opens in the 2008-2009 school year and I've heard that they are going to build another HS around Bandera Rd. and 211 (i think that's the road). I didn't realized that Pipe Creek is part of NISD and they go to OC.

and then there's this bond

http://www.nisd.net/news/articles/326/en

[T-Pain]

wow, northside is growing fast

[RashoFan]

Linton, Sul Ross and Holmes, mufuckas!
Horace Mann for 2 years, Nimitz for 1 year and then on to Lee HS....

[samikeyp]

Jackson for 2 years, Stevenson for 1, Marshall for 2, Taft for 2.


It's been crazy in the 20 years or so since I was a middle schooler. When I started Middle School at Stevenson, there were 8 middle schools in the district (Stevenson, Rudder, Hobby, Neff, Anson Jones, Pease, Sam Rayburn, and Sul Ross). Now there are 14. There were 4 high schools in the Northside district when I started middle school (Marshall, Holmes, Jay, and Clark). Now there are 10.

When I started at Stevenson, the attendance zone for the school was basically defined by Bandera Road, running out what is now Mainland Road to Heath Road, cutting over on Heath to Grissom, going out Grissom/Culebra to 1604 and then back to Bandera, but including all of Helotes as far out as San Antonio Ranch. At that, the school probably had fewer than 1,500 students and was housed entirely in one building with about 3 portables at most.

Now that same area is served by at least 4 middle schools (Stevenson, Zachry, Stinson, and Jefferson (when it opens). Amazing.

As someone who will be back in 28 days for his 20 year reunion (oy! :lol) It amazes me how much NISD has grown.

When I moved to Misty Oaks in 1982, the area was as FWD described. You went to Stevenson then Marshall. Then Taft opened up in 1985 and we all shifted over there.
We had the option like Shelly mentioned....Seniors stayed at Marshall, everyone else went to Taft unless you were in electives that were not offered at Taft. That whole area blew up about '95 and just has been crazy since. I have a friend who is a librarian in NISD and she told me Stevens will be capped next year. 10 high schools, two staduims...NISD is the fastest growing district in the state and show no sign of stopping.

[FromWayDowntown]

I was wrong, there are (or soon will be) 5 middle schools serving the area that just a generation ago could only fill one middle school. I didn't realize that Connolly draws most of Northwest Crossing and the neighborhoods right across Tezel from that one.

Mindboggling.

[Sunshine]

The growth out in that area has been unbelievable over the past 20 years. My kids are in private school right now, but will most likely go to public HS. Problem is, we don't know where they'll go. Using my address, they'd go to Clark, using their dads address, Jefferson. My son wants to go to Marshall because that's where most of his friends will be going.

btw...Maverick, Longfellow, Jefferson...many MANY years ago :lol

[samikeyp]

But you still look good! :)

[KEDA]

Bracken Christian, Bulverde Elementary, Smithson Valley Middle, and Smithson Valley High!!!

When I graduated SV in 98 the total population of the school was 1200

the Senior class last year was 1400

The school has quadrupled in size, and went from a small 4a school to a big 5a in about 3 years, its crazy out here.

[ashbeeigh]

Clark is starting to look pretty ghetto now too. It's near 2,800. I know Brandeis is taking a lot of the Leon Springs kids, though.

And I was Locke Hill, Hobby (with a break in Wisconsin), Clark.

[FromWayDowntown]

Oh, I meant to add as a btw -- Leon Valley (the original), Leon Valley II (at its opening), Braun Station (at its opening), Stevenson, Marshall.

[1369]

I hope to hell they charge them with "terroristic threats".

Yea, "I just wanted a day off school".

Stupid should hurt.

[4-2GSWINS]

sv is at 2405

roosevelt is at 2346
madison 3051
reagan 3409
churchill 2924
lee 2423
mac 2756

[4-2GSWINS]

Bracken Christian, Bulverde Elementary, Smithson Valley Middle, and Smithson Valley High!!!

When I graduated SV in 98 the total population of the school was 1200

the Senior class last year was 1400

The school has quadrupled in size, and went from a small 4a school to a big 5a in about 3 years, its crazy out here.
so your tellin me that more than half the entire school last year was seniors?

[4-2GSWINS]

:pctoss