Jack Yates Senior High School is a public high school located at 3650 Alabama Street, very near Texas Southern University, in the historic Third Ward in Houston, Texas. Yates High School handles grades nine through twelve and is part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD).
Yates High School
A sign commemorating the school
Houston City Hall in Yates' crimson and gold in honor of George Floyd in June 2020
The school campus in 1958
Texas Southern University
Texas Southern University is a public historically black university in Houston, Texas. The university is one of the largest and most comprehensive historically black college or universities in the United States with nearly 8,000 students enrolled and over 100 academic programs. The university is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".
Granville M. Sawyer Auditorium
Leonard H.O. Spearman building
TSU Science Center
TSU sign on campus