Jones Futures Academy

As of 2010 Empowerment South Early College High School is located on the Jones campus.

[citation needed] According to police reports, on September 21, 1990, during a class at Jones, a 16-year-old girl fatally stabbed 18-year-old Anthony Johnson in the upper back with a hunting knife; no teacher was present in the room, and a student received a cut on his hand when he tried to stop the incident.

Dianna Hunt of the Houston Chronicle reported that the boy "apparently" said a "disparaging comment about her clothing."

[6] On September 15, 2005, Houston natives and New Orleans Hurricane Katrina refugees fought in the school.

[7] A 2007 Johns Hopkins University study cited Jones as a "dropout factory" where at least 40 percent of the entering freshman class does not make it to their senior year.

[8] During that year, 55 percent of children zoned to Jones chose to attend a different Houston ISD school.

[2] That year, Terry Grier, the superintendent of HISD, proposed converting Jones into an all-magnet school.

[11] In 2010, the school received a science, technology, engineering and mathematics program funded by a federal grant.

Paula Harris, an HISD board member, stated her opposition to closing Jones.

During this meeting, Manuel Rodriguez, a board member, introduced the modified motion to convert Jones.

[19] Texas House of Representatives member Borris Miles also argued that the compromise was politically feasible while keeping Jones as a zoned school was not.

In order to accommodate the Milby students there was a portable restroom and eight trailer classrooms posted at Jones.

Stripling decided to let Allen keep his job, but she allowed the Vanguard program to move to the former Carnegie Elementary School.

Margaret Downing of the Houston Press said that some parents told her that school administration officials asked African-American students to stay at Jones and take Advanced Placement classes instead of moving to Carnegie Vanguard.

[12] In February 2014 Jones had 440 students, making it the smallest comprehensive high school in HISD.

[29] The nonprofit Children at Risk in 2011 ranked Jones High School the lowest in the Houston area.

"[25] Downing said in 2002 that Jones was an "eyesore with sewer backups, graffiti, nasty restrooms and moldy locker rooms.

[31] As principal, Lawrence Allen installed standardized dress to, in his words, "to remove competition in clothing.

"[32] Neighborhoods once zoned to Jones[33] include South Park, Southcrest, Golfcrest, Greenway, Lum Terrace, and a portion of Santa Rosa.

Ericka Mellon of the Houston Chronicle wrote that South Park, where the school is located, was "struggling".

[2] Jerry Patterson, Land Commissioner, Stare of Texas, 2003 - 2014[citation needed] James Squier, 312th District Court Judge, 1995 - 2007[citation needed] Lawrence Allen, member of Texas State Board of Education[citation needed] Elizabeth Watson, first female police chief, City of Houston[citation needed] Elementary schools that feed into Jones[33] include: Partial Portions of the attendance zones of Attucks Middle School[46] and Hartman Middle School[47] fed into Jones.