Fine Arts Complex and John F. Codwell Auditorium Phillis Wheatley High School is a secondary school located at 4801 Providence Street in,, with a of 77020.

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In 1979 Wheatley principal Charles Herbert said that 'For many, Fifth Ward is Wheatley High School' and that African-Americans who grew up in the Fifth Ward 'still cling closely to Wheatley' even after they had moved to other parts of the United States. The / building, which formerly served as the Wheatley High School building Wheatley first opened at 3415 Lyons Avenue in the former McGowan Elementary School building on January 31, 1927. In 1927 Wheatley High School was one of the largest Black high schools in the United States with 2,600 students and 60 teachers, and it was such throughout the segregation era.

By 1949 Wheatley's first facility on Lyons Avenue became so overcrowded that students attended in shifts. During that year the 14-acre (57,000 m 2), $2.5 million 4900 Market Street campus opened. The most expensive high school built in Houston at the time, the campus was designed by the firm MacKie & Kamrath in a -influenced modernist style. The campus, described by the as 'the finest Negro high school in the,' had a 1,500-seat auditorium, a gymnasium, an industrial arts facility, and a swimming pool. The school district spent attention on Wheatley in order to promote the argument that segregated minority schools can be equal to segregated White schools. The former Wheatley campus became, and later the. In May 1965 William Lawson, a youth minister, asked some Wheatley students to discuss a proposed school boycott.

While the school district was integrating, African American leaders believed that it was being integrated too slowly. During the boycott, which occurred five days later, 10% of Wheatley students attended classes. Post-desegregation [ ] In the 1970s Houston ISD had been desegregated.

As the Fifth Ward as a neighborhood experienced a surge in crime, Houston ISD rezoned the neighborhood, which had many White residents, to Wheatley. At that time the neighborhood was quickly becoming Hispanic.

Many area Hispanic students preferred to attend and as they became the majority population at those schools. John Nova Lomax of the stated that pride and discipline at Wheatley began to disintegrate in the 1970s, as counselors complained about a low level of morale among the students.