page_title: Third Ward, Houston
section_title: Public schools
hierarchical_section_title: Third Ward, Houston / Education / Primary and secondary schools / Public schools
caption_attribution_description: English: Yates High School Español: Escuela Preparatoria Jack Yates Tiếng Việt: Trung Học Jack Yates
context_page_description: Third Ward is an area of Houston, Texas, United States that evolved from one of the six historic wards of the same name. It is located in the southeast Houston management district.
  Third Ward, located inside the 610 Loop is immediately southeast of Downtown Houston and to the east of the Texas Medical Center. The ward became the center of Houston's African American community. Third Ward is nicknamed "The Tre”.
  Robert D. Bullard, a sociologist teaching at Texas Southern University, stated that Third Ward is "the city's most diverse black neighborhood and a microcosm of the larger black Houston community."
context_section_description: Area students attend schools in the Houston Independent School District. The community is within Trustee District IV, represented by Paula M. Harris as of 2009.
  Elementary schools serving sections of the Third Ward include Blackshear, located in Third Ward; and Lockhart in Riverside Terrace. All area residents are zoned to Cullen Middle School and Yates High School. The Baylor College of Medicine Academy at Ryan, a magnet school, is located in the former Ryan Middle School building. Beginning in 2018 the school also serves as a boundary option for students zoned to Blackshear, Lockhart, and MacGregor elementary schools. The current Energy Institute High School campus opened in the Third Ward in 2018.
  The Texas Southern University/Houston Independent School District Charter Laboratory School is in Cuney Homes. The building housing Young Women's College Preparatory Academy (which formerly had the Contemporary Learning Center) is in the Third Ward area. DeBakey High School is also in the Third Ward area. Energy Institute High School is in the former Dodson Elementary School in East Downtown, which once served the Third Ward.
caption: Yates High School
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