page_title: Downtown Houston
section_title: Public schools
hierarchical_section_title: Downtown Houston / Education / Primary and secondary education / Public schools
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture taken of the new Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) building from the corner of Austin and Rusk. Below the red sign is the main entrance to the school. Español: La nueva plantel de la Escuela Preparatoria Kinder de las Artes Escénicas y Visuales en Austin y Rusk en el Centro (Downtown) de Houston. La entrada principal es abajo del letrero rojo.
context_page_description: Downtown is the largest business district in Houston, Texas, located near the geographic center of the metropolitan area at the confluence of Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69. The 1.84-square-mile district, enclosed by the aforementioned highways, contains the original townsite of Houston at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, a point known as Allen's Landing. Downtown has been the city's preeminent commercial district since its founding in 1836.
  Today home to nine Fortune 500 corporations, Downtown contains 50 million square feet of office space and is the workplace of 150,000 employees. Downtown is also a major destination for entertainment and recreation. Nine major performing arts organizations are located within the 13,000-seat Theater District at prominent venues including Alley Theatre, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Jones Hall, and the Wortham Theater Center. Two major professional sports venues, Minute Maid Park and the Toyota Center, are home to the Houston Astros and Houston Rockets, respectively. Discovery Green, an urban park located on the east side of the district adjacent to the George R.
context_section_description: The grade-school children of Downtown are served by the Houston Independent School District (HISD).
  One public K-8 school, an HISD-affiliated charter school called Young Scholars Academy for Excellence (Y.S.A.F.E.), is in Downtown. It was established on May 15, 1996 by Kenneth and Anella Coleman. HISD's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA), a public magnet high school, broke ground on a new downtown campus in 2014, and classes began there in 2019, replacing HSPVA's previous Montrose-area campus.
  Three public district elementary schools have zoning boundaries that extend to areas of Downtown with residential areas; they are:
  Bruce Elementary School (in the Fifth Ward)
  Crockett Elementary School (northwest of Downtown)
  Gregory-Lincoln Education Center (in the Fourth Ward)
  Gregory Lincoln Education Center (in the Fourth Ward) takes most of Downtown's students at the middle school level. Marshall Middle School (in Northside) takes students at the middle school level from a small section of northern Downtown. Northside High School (formerly Jefferson Davis High School), also in Northside, takes students from almost all of Downtown at the high school level. Heights High School (formerly Reagan High School), in the Houston Heights, take students in the high school level from a small section of northwest Downtown.
  As part of rezoning for the 2014–2015 school year, in Downtown all areas previously under the Blackshear attendance zone and many areas in the Bruce attendance zone will be rezoned to Gregory-Lincoln K-8.
caption: Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
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