Sharpstown International School - History

History

Sharpstown International School was originally built in 1967 as a high school. It was named Sharpstown Junior/Senior High School housing grades 7–12. The area around the school grew quickly and, in the early 1970s, a new Sharpstown Senior High campus (serving grades 10–12) was built on Bissonnet Street. The older campus became Sharpstown Junior High, serving grades 7–9. At the beginning of the 1980–81 school year, Sharpstown Junior High became Sharpstown Middle School (grades 6–8), and Sharpstown Senior High became Sharpstown High School.

A gathering of students at a convenience store across from the school (which was often a meeting place for Sharpstown International School students) before 8:00 AM on Thursday, February 3, 1994, became a fight that led to three Sharpstown Middle School students being hospitalized. A 15-year-old boy with a stab wound to the neck received surgery. A 15-year-old boy with a stab wound to his back and a 12-year-old with a cut on his forehead were also hospitalized. Police took one 15-year-old boy into custody and referred him to juvenile probation authorities. The fight resulted in 500 students not attending classes the following day. On Monday, February 7, about 120 students did not attend classes.

In the late 1990s, Sharpstown Middle was granted a magnet program, Architecture and Graphics. Since the early 1990s, Sharpstown has hosted "Winterfest," which was changed to "Evening with the Arts."

In 2011 Sharpstown Middle was consolidated with Sharpstown International High School to form a new 6-12 school, Sharpstown International School. The new 6-12 school took attendance boundaries from Lee High School and Sharpstown High School, while Sugar Grove Middle School took portions of the boundary from Sharpstown Middle School. As of 2012, Sharpstown International School now has no boundary, with Sugar Grove Middle School and Sharpstown High School controlling its former middle and high school boundaries.