page_title: Sugar Land, Texas
section_title: Public schools
hierarchical_section_title: Sugar Land, Texas / Education / Primary and secondary education / Public schools
caption_attribution_description: English: Fort Bend Independent School District Administration Building Español: Edificio administrativo del Distrito Escolar Independiente de Fort Bend 中文（繁體）‎: Fort Bend獨立學區的總部 中文（简体）‎: Fort Bend独立学区的总部
context_page_description: Sugar Land is a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, located in the southwestern part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. Located about 19 miles southwest of downtown Houston, Sugar Land is a populous suburban municipality centered around the junction of Texas State Highway 6 and U.S. Route 59.
  Beginning in the 19th century, the present-day Sugar Land area was home to a large sugar plantation situated in the fertile floodplain of the Brazos River. Following the consolidation of local plantations into Imperial Sugar Company in 1908, Sugar Land grew steadily as a company town and incorporated as a city in 1959. Since then, Sugar Land has grown rapidly alongside other edge cities around Houston, with large-scale development of master-planned communities contributing to population swells since the 1980s.
  Sugar Land is one of the most affluent and fastest-growing cities in Texas. Its population increased more than 158% between 1990 and 2000. Between 2000 and 2007, Sugar Land also saw a 46% increase in jobs. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 78,817.
context_section_description: All public school systems in Texas are administered by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). The Fort Bend Independent School District (FBISD) is the school district that serves almost all of the city of Sugar Land; it formed in 1959 by the consolidation of Missouri City Independent School District and the Sugar Land Independent School District. The southwest portion of Sugar Land and some very small areas within its extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) are in the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District (LCISD).
  High schools serving Sugar Land residents in Fort Bend ISD include Clements High School, John Foster Dulles High School and Kempner High School, as well as Stephen F. Austin High School north of the city, which serves students in New Territory, while Lamar Consolidated ISD's Lamar Consolidated High School and George Ranch High School respectively serve the River Park and Greatwood master-planned communities in Sugar Land.
  Dulles, Clements and Austin have been recognized by Texas Monthly magazine in its list of the top high schools in the state of Texas. In addition, Dulles, Clements and Stephen F. Austin high schools were also ranked among the top 1000 schools in the United States by Newsweek's 2009 report.
  Prior to 1959 Sugar Land High School, which merged into Dulles that year, served the city. At the time FBISD formed, white students attended an elementary school in Sugar Land, a junior high school in Sugar Land, and a high school site in Missouri City. The elementary and junior high campus now houses Lakeview Elementary School and the high school site now houses Missouri City Middle School. Dulles High School became the zoned high school for white students in FBISD. Black students in Sugar Land for grades 1-12 were served by M.R. Wood School, one of FBISD's three schools for black children. Following racial desegregation in 1965, Dulles became the only zoned high school for students of all races in FBISD until Willowridge High School opened in 1979.
  In addition, the Harmony Public Schools operates three charter schools in the city, the grades K-5 Harmony Science Academy, 6-8 Harmony School of Excellence, and grades 9-12 Harmony School of Innovation.
caption: Fort Bend Independent School District administration building
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