Galveston Independent School District
The Texas Education Agency rated the school district as having "Met Standard" in 2013.[7] In 1881, the citizens of Galveston, authorized by the Legislative Act 1879 which specified that all cities of a certain size could initiate and maintain their own school system, organized a public school district and elected a board of trustees.[citation needed] In the summer of 1883, a local dry goods businessman, George Ball, offered to finance the construction of new schools.Ball High School opened its doors to 200 pupils on October 1, 1884, with a building consisting of 12 classrooms, two offices and an auditorium.Susan Wiley Hardwick's Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast documents that Central High School was opened as a high school for black students in a storefront in 1885.[9] On January 2, 2007, the Galveston County Daily News published a report about parents frustrated over plans to close Scott Elementary School.[15] The District Education Council approved a GISD plan to close multiple schools.[16] On May 15, 2007, the Houston Chronicle reported that the League of United Latin American Citizens, in an attempt to prevent schools from closing, filed a complaint with the U.S. federal government asserting that GISD violated a desegregation order.[17] Pat Guseman, an official with Pasa Demographics, predicted that GISD would lose about 1,468 students in the five years after 2007.[19] Before Hurricane Ike hit Galveston in September 2008, GISD had 7,900 students.If the district decided to renovate Courville stadium, it would have had to purchase 75 structures, including a church, to build enough parking spaces.
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