Tyler

FOUNDED: 1986

LOCATION: 16406 Farm-to-Market Road 2767, Tyler

HISTORY: The first Jackson school was built on Jamestown Road near the present day Chapel Hill CME Church. The school went through several transitions in the early 1900s. It began as a two-teacher facility and later became a four-classroom school housing first through seventh grades. As the years progressed, the building expanded as other grades were added. In the late 1940s, two other schools joined with Jackson and became a part of the Chapel Hill ISD. Jackson has had several names including Jackson High and Chapel Hill Junior High. In 1986, the school’s name was changed to Jackson Elementary School and it served pre-K through fourth grades.

SERVES: 413 students in pre-K/Head Start through second grade

DEMOGRAPHICS:
59.3 percent Hispanic
23.5 percent African-American
16 percent White
1 percent two or more races
0.2 percent American Indian
0 percent Asian/Pacific Islander

95 percent economically disadvantaged
45 percent limited English proficient
RATED: Academically Acceptable by the Texas Education Agency for the 2010-11 school year. (This school is paired with Kissam Intermediate School to receive its state rating because pre-K through second-graders do not take the state-mandated standardized test.)

PRINCIPAL: Minnie Harris

SPECIAL FEATURES: Classrooms have student-access computers and interactive white boards; dual-language program offered for every grade level; literacy classes for Hispanic parents; Prime Time afterschool program and UIL and Academic Rodeo competitions.

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Photos: East Texas Christian Academy Kindergarten Graduation   05/24/12
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