Carter Career Center
defunct high school in Houston, Texas
Howard P. Carter Career Center was a high school in the Fifth Ward area of Houston, Texas. The school, serving grades 6 through 12, was a part of the Houston Independent School District. The school served as a vocational school and pregnant girls' school. Carter Career Center had many students who are single parents. It had a day-care center that is supported by corporations, the state, the federal government, and foundations. After the closure of Carter, the building housed the DeVry Advantage Academy.
Name
Howard Payne Carter was a teacher and former soldier from Tennessee. He was the first African-American secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association.
History
Carter Career Center was established in 1929.
The campus, built in 1913, originally housed McGowan Elementary School, a school for white children.
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