Sterling High School (Houston)
Ross Shaw Sterling High School, also known as Sterling Aviation High School, is a secondary school located in Houston, Texas. Sterling, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. The school was named after Ross S. Sterling. Sterling has Houston ISD's magnet program for Aviation Sciences.
Sterling High School in 2020
Sterling High School in 2008
Ross Shaw Sterling was an American politician who was the 31st Governor of Texas, serving a single two-year term from January 20, 1931, to January 17, 1933.
A 1926 magazine cover depicts the proposed 40-story Sterling Hotel in Houston, designed by Ross Sterling's son-in-law, architect Wyatt Hedrick; the hotel was never built.
This mansion of Governor Sterling's at Morgan's point, a scaled down version of the White House, was completed in 1927
Birthplace of Governor Sterling
Ross Sterling's mansion in the Montrose area of Houston was built in 1916.