Education in Galveston, Texas

[1] The 84-acre (340,000 m2) campus includes schools of medicine, nursing, allied health professions, and a graduate school of biomedical sciences, as well as three institutes for advanced studies & medical humanities, a major medical library, seven hospitals, a network of clinics that provide a full range of primary and specialized medical care, and numerous research facilities.

[1] In addition, the UTMB campus includes an affiliated Shriners Burns Institute.

[citation needed] It houses several Biosafety Level 4 research laboratories, where studies on highly infectious materials can be carried out safely.

[3] Galveston is home to two post-secondary institutions offering traditional degrees in higher education.

Galveston College, a junior college that opened in 1967, serves an ethnically diverse population of approximately 2,400 students each semester in credit programs and nearly 5,000 individuals annually in continuing education programs.

Several district public elementary schools, including L. A. Morgan, Greta Oppe, Gladneio Parker, and Early Childhood University, serve grades pre-Kindergarten through 4.

[14] Galveston has several state-funded charter schools not affiliated with local school districts, including Kindergarten through 5th Grade Ambassadors Preparatory Academy[15] and Pre-Kindergarten through 8th Grade Odyssey Academy.

In 2010, with the closure of all seven of the Galveston Island & Bolivar parishes, and establishment of one new area-wide parish, Galveston Catholic was renamed Holy Family Catholic School[22][23] Saint Patrick's opened in 1881 and received its final campus in 1926.