User:Jareha/Backup/The Chinquapin School

The Chinquapin School is a non-profit private college-preparatory school, grades six through twelve, which serves low-income youth, particularly minorities, from the Greater Houston area. The school is located in Highlands, Texas.

History
The Chinquapin School was founded in 1969 as a school for boys by Robert Moore and his wife Maxine in Palestine, Texas. The school was moved in 1973 to Highlands, near Baytown. In 1978 the school became coeducational, letting in its first female student on a trial basis.

Academics
Students are required to take English, history, biology, physics, chemistry and math. Additionally, students must take four years of vocabulary-building courses, three years of Spanish and, as seniors, an environmental studies course.

Student life
All students who attend Chinquapin are on scholarship and pay a fraction of the $10,500 per student operating cost &#8212; $30-$100+ a month, based on family income. To fulfill the school's motto of Quid pro Quo (Latin: Something for Something) students give back by performing daily chores and helping in the community.

Girls and 6th grade boys are bussed to the school daily. Boys in 7th through through 12th grades stay Monday through Friday in campus dormitories.