History
Pin Oak opened in August 2002. Pin Oak's campus was designed by PBK and built for 25 million United States dollars. The school was paid for by the $678 million USD bond approved in 1998.
Before Pin Oak was built, the land that has the campus had horse stables; . The stables were removed before construction began.
Pin Oak's 8th grade teams have won over $150k in award money over the previous six years through eCybermission . In 2008, two teams were among the 30 semi-finalists for the Christopher Columbus National Awards as presented by Disney. One of the teams was a finalist, and attended Disney with the 5 other National finalists.
In 2005, the United States Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and Governor of Texas Rick Perry visited Pin Oak, since Pin Oak took more than 60 students displaced by Hurricane Katrina .
In 2008 Pin Oak was named a National Blue Ribbon School, as well as a TEA Exemplary school. The Anti-Defamation League of Houston awarded Pin Oak the No Place for Hate designation for 2007-08 during the school's May International program. Finally, in November 2008, Pin Oak was honored as a Texas Business Education Coalition (TBEC) school.
In November 2011 HISD opened an internal investigation regarding allegations of financial misappropriation; thousands of dollars disappeared from an activity and student fee fund. A financial clerk was suspended after the principal discovered the theft.
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