Almeda, Houston

Houston City Council districts D and K serve portions of Almeda.[4][5] Previously all of City Council District D served Almeda.[6][7]

The community is served by the Houston Police Department Southwest Patrol Division,[8] headquartered at 4503 Beechnut Street.[9]

Almeda is located in District 131 of the Texas House of Representatives. As of 2008, Alma A. Allen represents the district.[10] Genoa is within District 13 of the Texas Senate; as of 2008 Rodney Ellis represents that district.[11]

Almeda is in Texas's 9th congressional district. As of 2008, Al Green represents the district.[12] The United States Postal Service operates the Almeda Post Office at 3030 West Fuqua Street.[13]

The former Almeda Elementary School building

Former location of the Vinson Neighborhood Library

Almeda is within the Houston Independent School District (HISD). Almeda is within Trustee District IX, represented by Lawrence Marshall as of 2008.[14]

Almeda Elementary School serves the area east of Almeda Road.[15] As of 1998, 60% of the students were Hispanic and Latino. Since 1994 and as of 1998 the school used the "Success For All" reading program for its English language classes. For bilingual English-Spanish classes it uses "Exito Para Todos," the Spanish version.[3] As of the same year, many parents have some English fluency, but take English classes four days per week in order to improve it.[16] Residents east of Almeda Road are zoned to Audrey H. Lawson Middle School (formerly Dick Dowling Middle School).[17] Residents west of Almeda Road, for K-8, are zoned to Billy Reagan K-8 School.[18] Residents east of Almeda Road are zoned to Worthing High School.[19][20] while residents west of Almeda Road are zoned to Madison High School.[21]

The Almeda School District was established in 1893; students originally attended school in a barn and utilized hay stacks as desks. A white one room school building opened in 1894.[22] The first permanent school in Almeda opened in 1901.[23] In 1905 Almeda's school had one teacher and 31 students. State highway maps indicated two schools within one mile of Almeda in 1936.[1] During that year the Almeda area became a part of HISD. In 1981 a new Almeda Elementary School campus opened.[23] The current Almeda campus opened in February 2011.[24] Until the fall of 2011, residents east of Almeda Road were zoned to Woodson K-8 School,[19][20] while residents west of Almeda Road were zoned to Lawson Middle School.[21][25] From fall 2011 to fall 2012, all students were zoned to Lawson Middle School. Prior to fall 2012, all students were zoned to Almeda Elementary School. Beginning in fall 2012 portions of the old Almeda Elementary and Lawson zones were rezoned to Reagan K-8.[26]

Houston Public Library operates the Vinson Neighborhood Library at 3100 West Fuqua Street.[27] The original facility had structural issues and leaks. In Fall 2009 the library moved to a new location away from the Almeda community.[28] By December 2009 the former library facility was for sale.[29]