Editing Sugar Land, Texas (section)

====Public schools====
[[File:FBISDAdmin.jpg|thumb|[[Fort Bend Independent School District]] administration building]]
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&nbsp;Land; it formed in 1959 by the consolidation of Missouri City Independent School District and the [[Sugar Land Independent School District]].<ref name="FBISDSchoolHist">"[https://www.fortbendisd.com/Page/226 History]." [[Fort Bend Independent School District]]. Retrieved on July 20, 2017.</ref> The southwest portion of Sugar&nbsp;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]], [[Dulles High School (Sugar Land, Texas)|Dulles High School]] and [[Kempner High School]], as well as [[Stephen F. Austin High School (Fort Bend County, Texas)|Austin High School]] and [[Travis High School (Fort Bend County, Texas)|Travis High School]] north of the city, which both serve 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  Texas. In addition, Dulles, Clements, and  Austin high schools were also ranked among the top 1000 schools in the United States by ''[[Newsweek]]'''s 2009 report.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/201160/?s=sugar+land&q=2009/rank/1! |title=America's Top Public High Schools - The Daily Beast |publisher=Newsweek.com |date=June 7, 2009 |access-date=June 24, 2012}}</ref>

[[File:ClementsSugarLandTX..jpg|thumb|left|[[Clements High School]]]]
Prior to 1959 [[Sugar Land High School]], which merged into Dulles that year, served the city.<ref name="FB1997" /> 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 [[black school|schools for black children]]. Following racial desegregation in 1965,<ref name="FBISDSchoolHist" /> Dulles became the only zoned high school for students of all races in FBISD until [[Willowridge High School (Houston)|Willowridge High School]] opened in 1979.<ref name="FB1997">{{cite news |author=Solomon, Jerome |url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1997_1433312 |title=FOOTBALL 1997/HIGH SCHOOLS/FORT BEND BONANZA/Phillips, Dulles in hunt to add to town's memories |work=[[Houston Chronicle]] |date=August 28, 1997 |access-date=December 31, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120709123726/http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1997_1433312 |archive-date=July 9, 2012}}</ref>

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.