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About Katy Texas

Katy is a city located in Fort Bend, Harris, and Waller Counties in the U.S. state of Texas, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The population was 11,775 at the 2000 census.

Overview
Katy is named for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (commonly referred to as the "K-T Railroad", now a part of Union Pacific) that ran through Katy in the 19th century. Katy was once known as Cane Island. The name is derived from Cane Island Creek which runs just west of downtown. Cane Creek is a branch of Buffalo Bayou. The origins of the name Cane Island are believed to be from the fact that Katy was once a major sugar cane producer and rice producer. It has a festival the second weekend in October to honor and recoginize the former rice producing town.

Katy is home to the Igloo Corporation, an internationally-known manufacturer of cooling and portable refrigeration products. Igloo Corporation consolidated all of its operations in Katy in 2003. Katy is also home to the corporate offices and product distribution center for Academy Sports and Outdoors, one of the United States top sporting goods retailers.

Weston Lakes Country Club Community

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Katy Public schools
Pupils who live in Katy are zoned to schools in Katy Independent School District.
Three elementary schools, all in the city of Katy, serve Katy residents:

Zelma Hutsell Elementary School
Katy Elementary School
WoodCreek Elementary School
The following middle schools serve City of Katy residents:

Katy Junior High School
Woodcreek Junior High School (in unincorporated Fort Bend County)[5]
All high school aged students in the City of Katy are zoned to Katy High School.

Many homes in unincorporated Fort Bend, Harris, or Waller counties which have Katy addresses are served by other schools in Katy ISD.

Katy ISD Schools

Click on any Katy school from the following list for location, telephone number, and other information:

Alexander Elementary
Bear Creek Elementary
Beck Junior High
Beckendorff Junior High
Cimarron Elementary
Cinco Ranch High School
Cinco Ranch Junior High
Creech Elementary
Exley Elementary
Fielder Elementary
Franz Elementary
Golbow Elementary
Griffin Elementary
Hayes Elementary
Hutsell Elementary
Katy Elementary
Katy High School
Katy Junior High
Kilpatrick Elementary
King Elementary
Martha Raines High School
Mayde Creek Elementary
Mayde Creek High School
Mayde Creek Junior High
McDonald Junior High
McMeans Junior High
McRoberts Elementary
Memorial Parkway Elementary
Memorial Parkway Junior High
Miller Career Center
Morton Ranch High School
Morton Ranch Junior High
Nottingham Country Elementary
Opportunity Awareness Center
Pattison Elementary
Rhoads Elementary
Rylander Elementary
Schmalz Elementary
Seven Lakes High School
Stephens Elementary
Sundown Elementary
Taylor High School
West Memorial Elementary
West Memorial Junior High
Williams Elementary
Winborn Elementary
Wolfe Elementary
WoodCreek Elementary

 

Grayson Lakes

About Katy ISD

Encompasses 181 square miles 20 miles west of downtown Houston in

Harris, Fort Bend and Waller Counties.

45 campuses including 27 elementary schools, 10 junior highs, 6 high

schools, a career-technology center and an alternative center.

One of the fastest-growing school districts in Texas with an annual

growth rate of about 5 to 6 percent projected through 2016. The

districts most recent successful bond package in 2002 authorized

$315.635 million in funds, which will provide most facility needs through

2007.

Instructional quality guided by a comprehensive district wide curriculum

management plan, which coordinates development, delivery and

assessment of teaching throughout the district.

A highly advanced technology program includes one to three computers

in each classroom, multiple labs in each school, a technology facilitator

assigned to each campus, distance learning capabilities at several

campuses, a fiber optic network linking every school and facility and an

automated curriculum management plan.

An award-winning Partners in Education program provides approximately

one volunteer for each three children in the district. Volunteers

donated more than a half million hours in 2005-06.

The first school district in the world to adopt a Junior Achievement

"whole district" approach. During 2005-06, more than 30,000 students

participated in JA classes taught by volunteers from throughout the

community.

 

                                Wood Creek Reserve

Recognitions

Student achievement on statewide tests consistently surpass statewide

achievement levels at every grade level in every area tested. On the

2006 test, performance for all students was above 90% in writing

(96%), social studies (95%) and reading/language arts (94%).

One of the largest "Recognized" districts in Texas. 10 campuses are

ranked "Exemplary," 25 are "Recognized" and seven are "Acceptable."

14 National Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence

What Parents Want Award from School Match, a national school information

service, each of the 15 years that the designation has been

given.

Listed by Expansion Management magazine as one of the nations top

school districts.

Pattison Elementary, Katy Elementary, Beck Junior High and Cinco

Ranch High Schools are listed on the Texas Business Education Coalition/

Just for the Kids Honor Roll, the most prestigious award given in

Texas for sustained academic excellence.

Katy students consistently win individual and team championships

(state, national and international) in athletics, academics and fine arts. Learn more about the Katy schools

at www.katyisd.org

Growing at 5 to 6.25% yearly, Katy ISDs

enrollment is expected to reach 83,418 by

the 2015-16 school year. Thats more than

a 100% increase from 2003-04.

Since 1999, the district has completed 17

new schools: Cinco Ranch, Morton Ranch

and Seven Lakes High Schools;

Beckendorff, Cinco Ranch, McMeans and

Morton Ranch Junior Highs; Creech, Exley,

Franz, Griffin, Kilpatrick, King, Rhoads,

Rylander, Schmalz and Williams

Elementaries; plus performing arts centers

at the four high schools, an agriculture

science facility, a police and maintenance

complex. Three ninth grade centers and

additions at Katy High opened in 2002.

Colleges and universities
Katy is served by the Houston Community College System.

 

                    FireThorne

Public libraries
Katy is served by the Katy Branch of Harris County Public Library.

Community information
The Katy Family YMCA is located in nearby Cinco Ranch in unincorporated Fort Bend County. The YMCA was formerly named after Ken Lay, due to his having given an endowment of over $1 million. Soon after the Enron scandal began, the YMCA, since removing the name was undoable due to the financial help Lay provided, reduced the name, "Ken Lay" to approximately one-fourth the size it was before. In June 2006 Lay asked for his money to be returned in the wake of his legal trouble surrounding the Enron Scandal; consequently his name was removed and the YMCA was renamed the Katy Family YMCA.

Retail centers are springing up all throughout Katy to accommodate the rapid residential growth. The major retail growth is now being focused on the Katy Fort Bend Road near the east entrance to the Katy Mills shopping mall.

Postal service
The United States Postal Service operates the Katy Post Office at 5701 4th Street & the Katy Post Office Annex at 1331 Pin Oak Road, both of which are located in the City of Katy (Katy Proper).



History

The City of Katy was formally incorporated in 1945. Katy has always been a traditional family style community; however, it also played a major role as a rail hub, a rice farming and agricultural center, and one of the largest gas fields in this part of Texas.

Ancestral Homes of Katy were researched and historical markers erected by the local Texas Sesquicentennial Committee in 1986. The historical markers can be used as a guide for a walking or driving tour of more than a dozen historical homes and buildings in downtown Katy.



MKT Depot and Caboose, 5615 First Street in Railroad Park. Restored Katy Depot with MKT Museum, Visitors Center and caboose. Open from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday.

The Katy Heritage Society was established in 1979 by a group formed to save the old MKT Railroad Depot. With the help of the City, the Depot was acquired and restored by the Heritage Society. Other historical structures have been acquired and restored by the Society. All of their structures are now located at Katy Heritage Park, 5990 George Bush Drive. The group continues it's work to protect and preserve the historic resources of Katy. Please contact the Katy Heritage Society at 281-391-2550 for on the History of Katy.
http://www.katyheritagesociety.com

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