West Oso Independent School District is a public school district

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 in Nueces County, Texas

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 (USA

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). Over 1,900 students are enrolled in West Oso schools.

In 2009, the school district was rated "academically acceptable

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" by the Texas Education Agency

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Schools

• West Oso High School
  West Oso High School
  West Oso High School is a public school in Corpus Christi, Texas . It is part of the West Oso Independent School District.Located at 5202 Bear Lane, the school serves students in grades nine through twelve...
  
   (Grades 9-12)
• West Oso Junior High School (Grades 6-8)
• West Oso Elementary School (Grades 2-5)
• John F. Kennedy Elementary School (Grades PK-1)

Background

The West Oso School District has its origins in the original Oso School, founded in the 1890s in Oso Community (near Oso Creek, between state highway 44 and Old Brownsville Road). The first schoolhouse was a one-room sheepherder's shack on land owned by Henry Davis Allen, Jr. (brother of Calvin Joseph [Cal] Allen, for whom the nearby Calallen Independent School District

Calallen Independent School District

Calallen Independent School District is a school district located in northwest Corpus Christi, Texas in northern Nueces County. The district has approximately 4,000 students and operates three elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school....

is named). In 1967 the Oso School District merged with the West Point School District to create the West Oso Independent School District.