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====History of schools==== [[File:Condit ES D.jpg|thumb|Condit Elementary School, which serves most of the western half of Bellaire]] [[Image:HornESBellaireTX.jpg|thumb|Horn Academy, which serves the eastern half of Bellaire]] Bellaire's first school opened in 1909; the school moved to a new site in 1914 and an addition opened in 1927; when the addition opened the school was renamed "Condit." Horn opened in 1949, Pershing opened in 1927, and Bellaire High School opened in 1955.<ref name="SchoolHistoriesHISD"/> Condit received a new wing with 12 classrooms in the 1950s.<ref name=McBeeL/> Pin Oak opened in 2002. Pershing's current campus opened in January 2007.<ref name="SchoolHistoriesHISD"/> The current Horn and Lovett buildings were scheduled to open in August 2011. The rebuilds of Horn, Lovett, and Herod Elementary of Houston together had a cost of $49 million and were a part of a $1 billion bond program approved by HISD voters in 2007.<ref>Foster, Robin. "[http://www.ultimatebellaire.com/stories/259860-community-horn-herod-and-lovett-schools-benefit-from-upgrades Horn, Herod and Lovett schools benefit from upgrades] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329231754/http://www.ultimatebellaire.com/stories/259860-community-horn-herod-and-lovett-schools-benefit-from-upgrades |date=2012-03-29 }}." ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. August 16, 2011. Retrieved on August 19, 2011.</ref> Maud W. Gordon Elementary School in Bellaire does not have a zoning boundary; before 2012 it drew excess students from apartments west of Bellaire, in Houston, to relieve other schools in Houston west of Bellaire such as Benavidez, Cunningham, Elrod, and Milne. From its opening to 1953 to 1983 Gordon served as a neighborhood school. After its closure Gordon temporarily housed the Post Oak School and later served as administrative offices. It re-opened as a relief school in 1988 for Elrod and Cunningham schools.<ref name="SchoolHistoriesHISD">[http://www.houstonisd.org/HISDConnectDS/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=0afe09c28afc3110VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD&vgnextchannel=2e2b2f796138c010VgnVCM10000052147fa6RCRD School Histories] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710153727/http://www.houstonisd.org/HISDConnectDS/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=0afe09c28afc3110VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD&vgnextchannel=2e2b2f796138c010VgnVCM10000052147fa6RCRD |date=July 10, 2011 }}. ''[[Houston Independent School District]]''. Retrieved October 4, 2008.</ref> It was scheduled to re-open in September of that year.<ref>Staff. "[http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1988_559288 Principal of alternative school named]." ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. Wednesday July 27, 1988. Section 1, Page 16. Retrieved on December 8, 2011.</ref> In 2012 HISD opened the [[Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion Magnet School]] Chinese language-immersion magnet school,<ref>"[http://houstonisd.org/HISDConnectDS/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=71a4d95967615310VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD&vgnextchannel=051bdfb83de94310VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD HISD Accepting Applications for Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion Magnet School]." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120207034656/http://www.houstonisd.org/HISDConnectDS/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=71a4d95967615310VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD&vgnextchannel=051bdfb83de94310VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD Archive], [http://media.houstonisd.org/communications/Longtail/images/BOEM_ChineseSch_PR.pdf PDF], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140316182607/http://media.houstonisd.org/communications/Longtail/images/BOEM_ChineseSch_PR.pdf Archive of PDF]) [[Houston Independent School District]]. January 25, 2012. Retrieved on February 8, 2012.</ref> in the former Gordon Elementary building.<ref>"[http://dept.houstonisd.org/mandarin-chinese-school/ HISD Mandarin Chinese Immersion Magnet School] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819000536/http://dept.houstonisd.org/mandarin-chinese-school/ |date=2012-08-19 }}." [[Houston Independent School District]]. Retrieved on August 4, 2012.</ref> It is HISD's first Chinese immersion school.<ref>"[http://houstonisd.org/HISDConnectDS/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=6a9b341e52125310VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD&vgnextchannel=051bdfb83de94310VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD Chinese Immersion School Now Accepting Teacher Applicants for the 2012-2013 school year] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409063953/http://houstonisd.org/HISDConnectDS/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=6a9b341e52125310VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD&vgnextchannel=051bdfb83de94310VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD |date=April 9, 2012 }}." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120409063953/http://www.houstonisd.org/HISDConnectDS/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=6a9b341e52125310VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD&vgnextchannel=051bdfb83de94310VgnVCM10000028147fa6RCRD Archive]) [[Houston Independent School District]]. January 27, 2012. Retrieved on February 8, 2012.</ref> The school was scheduled to move to the [[St. George Place]] area of Houston;<ref>"[http://blogs.houstonisd.org/news/2014/12/08/mandarin-chinese-language-immersion-magnet-school-breaks-ground-for-new-facility/ Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion Magnet School breaks ground for new facility]." [[Houston Independent School District]]. December 8, 2014. Retrieved on December 15, 2014. [http://hisdtv.org/ground-breaking-ceremony-of-the-mandarin-chinese-language-immersion-magnet-school/ See HISDTV video]</ref> it was scheduled to open in August 2016.<ref name=Bairdopening>Baird, Annette. "[http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/memorial/news/article/August-2016-opening-planned-for-Mandarin-Chinese-5973649.php August 2016 opening planned for Mandarin Chinese Language school]." ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. Monday December 29, 2014. Retrieved on June 24, 2016.</ref> In 2017 HISD announced plans to demolish the Gordon/former MIMS campus so Bellaire High School's baseball practice field could be relocated there, allowing HISD to easily rebuild the high school main campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.houstonisd.org/news/2017/06/12/plan-to-rebuild-bellaire-hs-moving-forward/|title=Plan to rebuild Bellaire HS moving forward|publisher=[[Houston Independent School District]]|date=June 12, 2017|access-date=June 27, 2017}}</ref> On April 29, 1992, during an attendance boundary hearing committee for Southwest Houston, residents of a small portion of Bellaire zoned to Cunningham Elementary School, a school in Houston that was one block away from the city limits of Bellaire, advocated for a rezoning to Condit Elementary School, a facility in the City of Bellaire that was about {{convert|1|mi|km}} away from that section. Condit was about 50% White and had a middle class student body while Cunningham was 95% Hispanic. On May 21, 1992, the HISD board voted to rezone that portion to Condit.<ref>McAdams, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4eY4cg07-CAC&pg=PA55 55].</ref> Around the early 1990s portions of Bellaire west of the 610 Loop were zoned to [[Jane Long Middle School (Houston)|Jane Long Middle School]],<ref name=McAdamsp57>McAdams, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4eY4cg07-CAC&pg=PA57 57].</ref> while portions inside the 610 Loop were zoned to Pershing.<ref name=McAdamsp58>McAdams, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4eY4cg07-CAC&pg=PA58 58]. "Bellaire residents who lived east of the 610 loop were zoned to Pershing Middle School"</ref> During that decade, the Bellaire Area School Improvement Committee, or BASIC, was formed to improve the reputation of HISD in Bellaire and to improve Bellaire area schools. The committee opened after HISD's failed attempt to acquire property in Bellaire for the West University relief school.<ref name="McAdamsp57"/> An attempt to buy land at Bissonnet Street at Newcastle Drive in the City of Bellaire for a school to relieve [[West University Elementary School]] failed since City of Bellaire officials and parents living in Bellaire complained when they learned that they would not be zoned to the new school while losing what Tim Fleck of the ''[[Houston Press]]'' described as "a prime chunk of taxable property."<ref name="Fleck3">Fleck, Tim. "What Went Wrong at the Rice School?." ''[[Houston Press]]''. August 21, 1997. [http://www.houstonpress.com/1997-08-21/news/what-went-wrong-at-the-rice-school/3 3]. Retrieved on September 8, 2009.</ref> After its formation, BASIC installed a gifted and talented magnet at Jane Long, a school which Donald R. McAdams, a former HISD school board member and author of ''Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools—and Winning!: Lessons from Houston'', described as a school that was "unacceptable" to Bellaire residents since it was less than 10% white.<ref name=McAdamsp57/> McAdams added that even with the new program, to many parents in Bellaire, Long was "never going to be acceptable" due to the overwhelming Hispanic presence.<ref name=McAdamsp57/> Therefore, there was a proposal to convert Gordon into a small middle school for Bellaire.<ref name=McAdamsp57/> The school would have space for about 500 students and would be at least 50% White, so it was popular among many Bellaire residents, particularly those outside of the 610 Loop. However those inside the 610 Loop did not want to lose access to Pershing, a full service middle school that was about 40% White. An attendance boundary committee for at HISD met from December 1992 to March 1993. McAdams wrote that the committee was "an all-out war" between the two sides.<ref name=McAdamsp58/> In February 1993 pro-Gordon persons argued that HISD should purchase a commercial building north of Long and renovate it into an elementary school which would relieve Gordon Elementary and other overcrowded are schools. McAdams wrote that the staff members of HISD superintendent Frank Petruzielo "liked the idea, but unfortunately, on close examination the building proved to be inadequate."<ref name=McAdamsp58/> In April 1993 the HISD board declared that the Gordon campus would continue to be an elementary school. McAdams wrote that the Gordon supporters and many Bellaire residents were "furious".<ref name=McAdamsp58/>
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