Stafford Municipal School District is a school district

School district

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 based in Stafford

Stafford, Texas

Stafford is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The city is mostly in Fort Bend County with a small portion in Harris County. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Stafford's population was 15,681....

, Texas

Texas

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, United States

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. The district covers all of the city of Stafford and is controlled by the city, the only school district in Texas that is not an independent school district

Independent school district

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 operated by an independent school board.

There are five schools on the campus of Stafford Municipal School District. The Primary/Elementary School building house grades Pre-K through 4, the Intermediate School building houses grades 5 through 6, and the Middle/High School building houses grades 7 through 12. The administration building and athletic facilities are on the same campus as the school buildings.

The Stafford MSD area is served by the Houston Community College System

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In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable

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" by the Texas Education Agency

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History

In 1977, Stafford schools broke away from the Fort Bend Independent School District

Fort Bend Independent School District

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, which caused several rounds of federal litigation and by 1981 its was finally declared that the Stafford Municipal School District was constitutional. Almost all of Stafford was in the Fort Bend District, with a minuscule portion in the Houston Independent School District

Houston Independent School District

The Houston Independent School District is the largest public school system in Texas and the seventh-largest in the United States. Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and insular municipalities...

. All of Stafford is now zoned to the Stafford Municipal School District, which is the only school district in all of Texas that is controlled by the city.

High schools

AAA

• Stafford High School (9-12)

Made up of:

• Freshmen (9th graders)
• Sophomores (10th graders)
• Juniors (11th graders)
• Seniors (12th graders)

Sports

Boys

• Football (Varsity,JV,Freshman)
• Basketball (Varsity,JV,Freshman)
• Tennis (Varsity,JV,Freshman)
• Soccer (Varsity,JV)
• Baseball (Varsity,JV)
• Track (Varsity,JV)
• Cross Country (Varsity,JV)
• Swimming
• Golf

Girls

• Basketball (Varsity,JV,Freshman)
• Volleyball (Varsity,JV,Freshman)
• Tennis (Varsity,JV,Freshman)
• Soccer (Varsity,JV)
• Softball (Varsity,JV)
• Track (Varsity,JV)
• Cross Country (Varsity,JV)
• Swimming
• Golf

Sports

Boys

• Football
• Basketball
• Track
• Cross Country
• Tennis

Girls

• Basketball
• Volleyball
• Track
• Cross Country
• Tennis

Primary schools

• Stafford Intermediate School (5-6) (Opened 2001 )
• Stafford Elementary School (2-4) (Opened 1993 )
• Stafford Primary School (Prk 1)

External links

• Stafford Municipal School District