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Pin Oak Middle School is a secondary school that is located in Bellaire, Texas, United States. Pin Oak, which serves grades 6 through 8, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. It is located near the intersection of the 610 Loop and U.S. Route 59 (Southwest Freeway).〔"(About the PTO )." Pin Oak Middle School. Retrieved on October 16, 2011.〕 From 2002 to 2004 Suzanne Sutherland was principal. From 2004 to 2010 Michael McDonough was Principal . From December 2009 to July 2010 Amy Simson was the interim principal. From 2011 to 2015 Susan Monaghan was principal. Pin Oak Middle School, which was built in 2002 to relieve nearby middle schools, is an "application-only" school that accepts students by application. Anyone living in Houston ISD may apply for the Foreign Languages magnet program, and the pupils who are zoned to Johnston Middle School, Jane Long Middle School, or Pershing middle schools may apply to Pin Oak's regular program.〔"(Pin Oak Middle School )." ''The Southwest District''. ''Houston Independent School District''.〕 The building sits on an campus.〔"(Pin Oak Middle School, Bellaire, Texas )." ''American School & University''.〕 Pin Oak Middle School has the foreign language magnet program. Languages offered at Pin Oak include Spanish, German, French, Italian, Chinese, and Hebrew.〔"(Foreign Language Magnet Program )." Pin Oak Middle School. Retrieved on November 14, 2011.〕 The school was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 2008.〔"(Twenty-six Texas public schools named NCLB- Blue Ribbons Schools )." ''Texas Education Agency''. September 9, 2008.〕〔"(Feds award 26 Texas schools with 'blue ribbon' )." ''Houston Chronicle''. September 9, 2008.〕 The ''Bellaire Examiner'' stated in 2010 "Pin Oak’s innovative magnet and Vanguard programs have earned it honors and many more applicants each year than it can accept."〔"(HISD computer hacking originated at Pin Oak MS, district says )." ''Bellaire Examiner''. Saturday December 4, 2010. Retrieved on December 11, 2010.〕 Isaiah Carey of ''KRIV'' said that Pin Oak "is seen as one of the best in HISD for learning and education,()"〔Carey, Isiaha. "(Internal Investigation for Theft at Pin Oak Middle School )." ''KRIV (TV)''. Friday November 4, 2011. Retrieved on November 23, 2011.〕 A contest called "Pin Oak Idol", a spinoff of American Idol, is held annually at Pin Oak Middle School. Pin Oak is across the street from the Houston Community College System's West Loop Center and the Challenge Early College High School (which is located inside HCC's West Loop Center), both of which are located in the city of Houston (Glenmont Street is on the border of Houston and Bellaire). == History == Pin Oak opened in August 2002. Pin Oak's campus was designed by PBK () and built for 25 million United States dollars. The school was paid for by the $678 million USD bond approved in 1998. Before Pin Oak was built, the land that has the campus had horse stables; ().〔http://www.heritagesociety.org/Hinton-Names%20of%20Houston%20Streets%20071907.pdf〕 The stables were removed before construction began. Pin Oak's 8th grade teams have won over $150k in award money over the previous six years through eCybermission (). In 2008, two teams were among the 30 semi-finalists for the Christopher Columbus National Awards as presented by Disney. One of the teams was a finalist, and attended Disney with the 5 other National finalists. In 2005, the United States Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and Governor of Texas Rick Perry visited Pin Oak, since Pin Oak took more than 60 students displaced by Hurricane Katrina () (). In 2008 Pin Oak was named a National Blue Ribbon School,〔"(2008 No Child Left Behind – Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Private Schools by State )." ''United States Department of Education''. Retrieved on February 27, 2009.〕 as well as a TEA Exemplary school. The Anti-Defamation League of Houston awarded Pin Oak the No Place for Hate designation for 2007-08 during the school's May International program. Finally, in November 2008, Pin Oak was honored as a Texas Business Education Coalition (TBEC) school. In November 2011 HISD opened an internal investigation regarding allegations of financial misappropriation; thousands of dollars disappeared from an activity and student fee fund. A financial clerk was suspended after the principal discovered the theft.〔 In 2015 Susan Monaghan, the previous Pin Oak principal, became the principal of Westbury High School.〔Mellon, Ericka. "(HISD names Yates, Sterling, Westbury High principals )" ((Archive )). ''Houston Chronicle''. June 5, 2015. Retrieved on November 20, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pin Oak Middle School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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