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Humble School. When Humble High School opened, the Humble School was renamed to the Humble
Grammar School. The Humble Grammar School was destroyed in a pre-dawn fire on January 26, 1929. The land occupied by the Humble Grammar School, Block 26 in Bender's First Addition was donated by the estate of Charles Bender in 1909.
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school: C. W. Ennis was awarded te general contract for $ 124,350; Walker
Heating and Plumbing was awarded the contract for $ 16,755 (plus $ 19,50 for work on the Humble High School renovation), Caywood Electric was awarded a contract of $ 6,200, and Harry D. Payne was paid architect fees of $ 7,492.75
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Grammar School, the school board voted to have a new building constructed. After H. E. McKay and 53 other citizens submitted a formal petition, the school board voted to hold a bond election to fund a new junior-senior high school building of $ 140,000 on February
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Charles Bender High School in honor of the Bender family for donations and loyal support. At the same meeting, Payne presented preliminary plans for the new high school at standard scale. The plans were approved with few changes. On
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Curriculum and Staff Development Center. In 2003, after the opening of the Instructional Support Center in Kingwood, the former Charles Bender High School building was abandoned and has been vacant ever since. The building has been in disrepair and
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Charles Bender High School by architect Harry D. Payne, along with plans for remodeling Humble High School into use as a grammar school. On June 5, 1929, the school board approved contracts for the construction of the
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The first school with high school graduates was the Humble School, which served all grades (1-11). The first students to graduate were the Inmann twins, Edith and Ethel, who graduated in 1911. Starting in 1918, students graduated from Humble High School on
Higgins Street, built next door to the
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