Aldine Senior High School is a public high school located in the Greenspoint district of northern Houston, Texas, United States. It is part of the Aldine Independent School District. The senior high school campus serves grades 10 through 12 (although a few ninth grade students attend select classes at Aldine High). The separate Aldine Ninth Grade School hosts students in grade 9.
Location
Aldine Senior High is located at 11101 Airline Drive, at the intersection of Airline and West Road. Its 2012-2013 attendance boundaries are bordered by the Sam Houston Tollway on the north, the Hardy Toll Road on the east and Veterans Memorial Drive for the majority of the western edge. The southern boundary is the Aldine Independent School District boundary line, which is a straight line about a quarter mile south of Gulf Bank Road extending from the Hardy Toll Road to Veterans Memorial Drive east to west. The North Freeway runs just to the west of the center of the zone north to south.
The approximately 12-square mile attendance zone takes in portions of Houston and unincorporated areas in Harris County in zip codes 77037, 77038, 77060 and 77088. This area includes the neighborhoods of Airline Farms, Blue Bell Village, Colonial Hills, Fallbrook, Greenridge North, Hidden Valley, Imperial Valley, North Shepherd Plaza, Northline Terrace, Oak Glen, Ridgepoint, and several smaller subdivisions. It also takes in numerous multi-family apartment complexes along Airline Drive, Aldine-Bender Road, Blue Bell Road, Fallbrook Drive, Plaza Verde Drive, Veterans Memorial Drive, West Road and Winding Bayou Trace. The school serves portions of the Aldine CDP, the Greenspoint District, the Airline Improvement District and the City of Houston's Super Neighborhood 7. Harris County Housing Authority's sole public housing for families, Waterside Court, is zoned to this school.
2015 bond improvements
In November 2015, Aldine Independent School District voters overwhelmingly approved a $798 million bond package to fund numerous campus construction and renovation projects across the district. The bond package includes two major projects at Aldine High School, each designed to alleviate overcrowding at the campus, which the district says is currently 12.5 percent over capacity.
In early 2016, Aldine ISD held a planning meeting and released additional details about the work to be done at Aldine High.
This work includes the addition of a new wing of classrooms on the north side of the campus, adjacent to the existing "400 Hall" and currently the location of the school's bus ramp and canopy. This new, as yet unnamed wing will contain 18 classrooms, a "flex" room, a work room, space for the school's ROTC program, and men's and women's restrooms. The bus ramp and canopy will be relocated further north, between the new wing and the existing tennis courts.
The primary Career and Technology (CTE) wing on the west side of the campus will undergo, depending on the specific area, demolition and rebuilding, or renovation and repurposing. According to Aldine ISD plans as linked on the district website in the citation above: The Air Conditioning and Heating lab, and the Building Trades labs will be demolished and converted to Technology Education and Pre-Veterinary classrooms. The existing Pre-Veterinary classroom will be demolished and the existing Welding lab will be expanded and renovated. The existing Automotive lab will be renovated and expanded. One existing Art lab will be demolished and replaced with a new Culinary Arts lab. Another existing Art lab will be converted to a Computer Maintenance lab or a History classroom (based on future CTE needs). Another Art lab will be expanded and converted to a Drafting lab. The existing Cosmetology Lab will be renovated.
In other CTE areas located on the south side of the campus: The existing Culinary Arts lab will be demolished and converted to a Speech / Debate lab. A block of computer technology rooms will be renovated to provide a new Visual Arts lab for sculpture, drawing and photography.
Administrative areas in the north end of the campus will see the following renovation work, again according to Aldine ISD plans noted in the citation in the second paragraph: A new corridor will be installed from the front office to the Vice Principal's suite. The reception desk will be brought into compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).
Restrooms throughout the campus will be renovated, repaired and brought into compliance with the ADA.