moving to el paso (West: neighborhood, middle school, live in)

[XChucoresident]

Originally Posted by jfe

Stay away from Bowie High School, my brother-in-law went there.

There is Cathedral, a Catholic private school, which is supposed to be one of the best.

Bowie High School is NOT a bad high school...ALot of famous and productive people went there!..AMong them are my father who becaame an assistant principal, Nolan Richardson who was the basketball coach from Arkansas and they won the NCAA, Dr. Gardea who was a famous pediatrician..here..there are so many famous and productive people that graduated from there..Bowie is only put down because it si 100% Mexican.....so PLEASe DO NOT TRash BOWie HIgh School!

[Muhnay]

If Bowie is not a bad High School why are they at stage 5?

Originally Posted by EL Paso Times

Bowie and Austin high schools met state standards but failed to achieve federal measures and are in the final restructuring stage of Adequate Yearly Progress.
"Although they are in Stage Five, the monitors that were here assigned by the federal government felt that there was considerable improvement and they did not want for us to do a full school closure," Superintendent Lorenzo Garcia said. "They wanted us to do a targeted restructuring."

http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_11430974/

Bowie High School, El Paso Texas / TX school information and ethnic makeup

Did you know that CD does this?

http://www.city-data.com/school/bowi...school-tx.html

[malamute]

Originally Posted by XChucoresident

Bowie High School is NOT a bad high school...ALot of famous and productive people went there!..AMong them are my father who becaame an assistant principal, Nolan Richardson who was the basketball coach from Arkansas and they won the NCAA, Dr. Gardea who was a famous pediatrician..here..there are so many famous and productive people that graduated from there..Bowie is only put down because it si 100% Mexican.....so PLEASe DO NOT TRash BOWie HIgh School!

Dr. Gardea and Nolan Richardson, and your father are not attending Bowie right now I'm sure.

Times have changed.

[malamute]

When kids can't meet the minimal scores in science and math, a school has a big problem even if 100% of the students are from Mexico. It's not acceptable to say that one ethnic group should be failing in such high numbers.

[SWFootballFan]

Ysleta and Soccoro ISD schools tend to be in better shape than El Paso ISD schools. As for the education it will solely be up to the student if they decide on taking Honor (AP or College Prep) vs. Regular.

[mistabinks]

Originally Posted by SWFootballFan

As for the education it will solely be up to the student if they decide on taking Honor (AP or College Prep) vs. Regular.

Exactly. Don't let a school's rating determine anything for your children. Help them step up.

[DesertDog]

anji
We moved here with a very shy 13 year old girl and a very active 10 year old boy ( with a lot of medical issues) and chose the SISD because of the location and the schools. My daughter in in all advanced classes and carries A-B grades and my son struggles. The schools have been great and my kids had no trouble making friends. We live in the 79938 area and homes are very nice as well as access to shopping is right down the street. We've been here around 18 months and so far so good.

[heccue]

what is wrong with Bowie High School?

[heccue]

i agree with xchucoresident there are some great bowie high school students out there in our US military serving their great country and giving it their all in Iraq and Afganistan, How i know I am a graduate from Bowie High School and proudly served my country....and yes there other great people that came out of Bowie High School....Yes the majority of student there are Hispanics damn proud of it.

[Muhnay]

Originally Posted by heccue

i agree with xchucoresident there are some great bowie high school students out there in our US military serving their great country and giving it their all in Iraq and Afganistan, How i know I am a graduate from Bowie High School and proudly served my country....and yes there other great people that came out of Bowie High School....Yes the majority of student there are Hispanics damn proud of it.

And they say us White folk are raciest. There is the problem with El Paso right there and BOWIE.. thank you.