Sharpstown High School is a secondary school at 7504 Bissonnet Street in Greater Sharpstown, Houston, Texas, United States with a zip code of 77074. It serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of the Houston Independent School District. The school serves part of Sharpstown, which was Houston's first master-planned community. It also serves the neighborhoods of Robindell, Braeburn Glen, Braeburn Terrace, Braeburn Valley, Braeburn Valley West, and parts of Fondren Southwest. Sharpstown International School, an alternative secondary school, was on Sharpstown High School's campus from fall 2007 to fall 2010. History Sharpstown Junior-Senior High School opened in 1968 in the campus now occupied by Sharpstown International School. In 1969, the junior and senior high schools separated, with the senior high going into a new campus. In 2011 Sharpstown International School took attendance boundaries from Lee High School and Sharpstown High School. As of 2012, Sharpstown International School has no boundary, with Sharpstown High School controlling its former high school boundary. Race riot During the final day of school around 11 a.m. June 2, 1988, three African-American teenagers attacked a white football player in an Algebra class. The fight grew to 100 participants with around 400 students watching the race riot. Sixteen police cars and one helicopter traveled to the school, and police closed Bissonnet Street for 45 minutes. Two students were hospitalized at Southwest Memorial Hospital. Police identified the main perpetrator as a 17-year-old former student who was expelled in 1987. Police said that he, along with two students, armed themselves with a nail-studded stick and a chain and looked for a target in revenge for an incident two months earlier, when a white football player beat two black students. The Algebra teacher pressed a panic button, but it did not work as they were turned off. The teacher sent a student to report the incident. A 1988 Houston Chronicle article written one day after the brawl stated that Sharpstown had a history of racial tension. Deborah Tedford and Burke Watson of the Houston Chronicle wrote that "The Sharpstown campus has been plagued with outbursts of violence during school year — with parents taking to the halls as volunteer security monitors in November to quell disturbances." Gayle Fallon, president of the Houston Federation of Teachers, criticized the school. Fallon said that the school should have taken more precautionary measures to ensure a racially motivated fight did not happen.