San Jacinto High School was a secondary school

Secondary school

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 located at 1300 Holman Street in Houston

Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

; now part of the Houston Community College Central College, Central Campus.

San Jacinto High School was located in the area now known as Midtown. The school was established in 1926 after Central High School

Sam Houston High School (Houston)

Sam Houston Center for Math, Technology, and SciencePrincipal AdministratorJane Crump , Rolando Treviño Grade levels9 - 12Founded1878School typePublic school Religious affiliationLocation Houston, TexasEnrollment...

, which was located near Downtown Houston

Downtown Houston

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, was closed. From 1927 until 1934, the campus was also the first home to Houston Junior College, which eventually became the University of Houston

University of Houston

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.

In 1962 a technical program was added to the campus. The neighborhood program ended in 1971, and the technical program was abolished in 1985. High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts is a secondary school located at 4001 Stanford Street in the Montrose district of Houston, Texas. The school is a part of the Houston Independent School District....

 was housed at San Jacinto from 1971 to 1981. Houston Community College System

Houston Community College System

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 purchased the school grounds. The San Jacinto Memorial Museum is on the school grounds.

Notable alumni

• Dr. Denton Cooley
• Walter Cronkite
  Walter Cronkite
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    (1933)
• A. J. Foyt, Jr. (also attended Pershing
  Pershing Middle School (Houston)
  John J. Pershing Middle School is a secondary school located at 3838 Bluebonnet in Houston, Texas with a zip code of 77025.Pershing, located in the Braeswood Place neighborhood, serves grades 6 through 8 and is a part of the Houston Independent School District.Pershing has a neighborhood program, a...
  
   and Hamilton middle schools and Lamar High School
  Lamar High School (Houston)
  Mirabeau B. Lamar Senior High School is a secondary school located at 3325 Westheimer Road in Houston, Texas, United States, with a zip code of 77098...
  
   - did not graduate from San Jacinto)
• Glenn McCarthy
  Glenn McCarthy
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   (Oilman and entrepreneur)
• Maxine Mesinger
  Maxine Mesinger
  Maxine Mesinger was a celebrity gossip columnist of the Houston Chronicle who was active between 1965 and 2000. Her works were published in the "Big City Beat," her social column. She had the nickname "Miss Moonlight"...
  
   (gossip columnist)
• David Westheimer
  David Westheimer
  David Westheimer was an American novelist best known for writing the 1964 novel Von Ryan's Express which was adapted as a 1965 movie starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard....
  
   (author)
• Kathy Whitmire
• Gale Storm
  Gale Storm
  Gale Storm was an American actress and singer who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show.-Early life:...
  
  (born Josephine Cottle) (actress, singer)