Editing Stafford, Texas (section)

== Education ==
[[File:StaffordHCCSclassbuildingTX.JPG|thumb|[[Houston Community College System]] Stafford building]]

=== Colleges and universities ===
Stafford MSD (and therefore the city) is served by the [[Houston Community College System]].<ref>[https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.130.htm Sec. 130.182. HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM DISTRICT SERVICE AREA.].</ref> The [[Southwest College (Houston Community College System)|HCCS Southwest College]] includes the Stafford Campus at 10041 Cash Road. In spring 2012, the enrollment at the Stafford Campus was 8,139.<ref>"[http://swc2.hccs.edu/swc/0506/operations/index.php College Operations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922155802/http://swc2.hccs.edu/swc/0506/operations/index.php |date=September 22, 2008 }}." ''Houston Community College Southwest College''. Accessed May 2, 2012.</ref> Stafford is also home to [[North American University]], a small private university with an enrollment of roughly 800 students.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=north+american+university&s=all&id=461795 | title=College Navigator - North American University }}</ref>

=== Primary and secondary schools ===
[[File:StaffordMSDAdmin.JPG|thumb|left|[[Stafford Municipal School District]] headquarters]]

==== Public schools ====
The city has the only municipal [[school district]] ([[Stafford Municipal School District]]) in all of Texas. In 1977, Stafford broke away from the [[Fort Bend Independent School District]] (FBISD), which caused several rounds of federal litigation; by 1981, it was declared that the [[Stafford Municipal School District]] was constitutional. Almost all of Stafford was in FBISD, with a minuscule portion in the [[Houston Independent School District]]. All of Stafford is now zoned to the Stafford Municipal School District, Texas's only municipal [[school district]] controlled by the city. Residents pay property taxes to the school district.<ref name="Leezerotaxes"/>

When most of Stafford was a part of FBISD, Staffordshire Elementary was in Stafford. Staffordshire housed Black students in grades 1–4. Black secondary school students attended the [[M.R. Wood School]] in Sugar Land. At the time FBISD formed in 1959, white students could attend one of two elementary schools, and they attended a middle school in Sugar Land and a high school site in Missouri City; the latter two sites now house Lakeview Elementary School and Missouri City Middle School. [[Dulles High School (Sugar Land, Texas)|Dulles High School]] became the high school for white students in FBISD. In September 1965 Fort Bend ISD desegregated and Staffordshire School closed.<ref name=FBISDSchoolHist>"[https://www.fortbendisd.com/Page/226 History]." [[Fort Bend Independent School District]]. Retrieved on July 20, 2017.</ref> Staffordshire students were reassigned to E. A. Jones Elementary School in Missouri City. Dulles Junior High School served as FBISD's sole junior high school from March 1965 to August 1975.<ref name=History2008>{{cite web|url=http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us:80/about/history.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907032420/http://www.fortbend.k12.tx.us:80/about/history.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-09-07|title=FBISD History|publisher=Fort Bend Independent School District|date=2018-12-03|access-date=2018-12-03}}</ref> Dulles High became the only zoned high school for students of all races in FBISD until [[Willowridge High School (Houston)|Willowridge High School]] in Houston opened in 1979.<ref>Solomon, Jerome. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120709123726/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1997_1433312 FOOTBALL 1997/HIGH SCHOOLS/FORT BEND BONANZA/Phillips, Dulles in hunt to add to town's memories]." ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. Thursday August 28, 1997. Special 33. Retrieved on December 31, 2011.</ref>

==== Private schools ====

Everest Academy (Pre-K–5), a school of the [[Darul Arqam Schools]], is in Stafford.<ref>"[http://everest-academy.com/contact/ Contact]." Everest Academy. Retrieved on April 24, 2018. "610 Brand Ln, Stafford, TX 77477, USA"</ref> Sugar Creek Montessori School also has a campus in Stafford.<ref>"[http://www.sugarcreekmontessori.com/contact-us/ Contact Us]." Sugar Creek Montessori School. Retrieved on April 24, 2018. "Sugar Land Campus 615 Dulles Avenue Stafford, Texas 77477"</ref>

=== Public libraries ===
[[Fort Bend County Libraries]]' Mamie George Branch is in [[Sugar Land]], on Dulles Avenue next to Dulles Middle School.<ref>"[http://www.cityofstafford.com/PDF%20Files/StaffordCityMap_2007-04-25.pdf City Map]." ''City of Stafford''. Retrieved on December 5, 2008.</ref><ref>"[http://www.cityofstafford.com/about_stafford/directory.htm Stafford Area Directories]." City of Stafford. Retrieved on August 17, 2009.</ref> The Mamie George Library, a {{convert|4900|sqft|sqm}} library designed by Wylie W. Vale and Associates, opened in November 1974. It was named after Mamie George, a philanthropist from Fort Bend County. The George Foundation donated funds for the building, and the [[Fort Bend Independent School District]] donated the land the library was built on. The library was renovated in 1991. In 1996 the small-business-center materials were moved from the Missouri City Branch to the Mamie George Branch.<ref>"[http://www.fortbend.lib.tx.us/branches/mg.html Mamie George Branch Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420104450/http://www.fortbend.lib.tx.us/branches/mg.html |date=April 20, 2010 }}." [[Fort Bend County Libraries]]. Retrieved on May 14, 2010.</ref>