City: San Antonio, TX

Category: Education

Telephone: (210) 824-2483

Address: 7101 Broadway

Description: In 1909 a two-­room schoolhouse was built in a rural community, the area that is now known as Alamo Heights. The Alamo Heights Independent School District was officially created in 1923, with a total of 300 students.In 1938 the athletic stadium was constructed by the Work Projects Administration, part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program to help pull the US out of the Great Depression. After World War II the community of Alamo Heights became a suburb of San Antonio. The district almost doubled in size in the few years following the war, thanks to the baby boom. The building that is today Alamo Heights High School was finished in 1950, but not before housing a number of different schools. Today’s Alamo Heights Independent School District covers 9.4 square miles; contains 2 elementary schools, 1 junior high school, and 1 high school; and enrolls about 4,600 students, including kindergarten and pre-­K students. The neighborhoods served by this school district are Alamo Heights, Terrell Hills, Olmos Park, and part of north San Antonio.