Baker Montessori School
school in Texas, United States
The Ella J. Baker Montessori School, formerly the Woodrow Wilson Montessori School and the Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, is a public K-8 Montessori school in the Cherryhurst Addition subdivision in the Neartown area of Houston, Texas. A part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD), Baker serves as the neighborhood elementary school for a section of Neartown, including a portion of Montrose. It also serves as a magnet school for all of HISD's territory. As of 2014 it is one of three public Montessori programs in Houston. It was the first HISD school to use the Montessori style for all students, as well as housing HISD's first Montessori middle school program.
History
The land that currently houses Baker Montessori was previously occupied by the summer house of Mirabeau Lamar, a President of Texas; it was located on the Oak Grove acreage site. The acreage was broken up in 1923. Construction began in 1924 and the school opened in 1925.
For much of its history it was a standard neighborhood elementary school. The Houston Chronicle described Wilson Elementary as "the showplace school of the city for many years".
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