School History

Year Founded: 1957

LONG ACADEMY (FORMERLY LONG MIDDLE SCHOOL) - General Information / Middle/High School Combinations
6501 Bellaire

This school was named after Jane Wilkinson Long, the “Mother of Texas.” She was the first known woman of English descent to enter Texas and bore the first child of such parentage in the state. Her husband was killed leading an expedition to invade Texas when it was under Spanish rule. She opened a hotel in Richmond and died near there in 1880. Long Middle School was built in 1957.

Jane Long Academy, formerly Jane Long Middle School, is a public grade 6–12 middle and high school in Sharpstown, Houston, Texas. It is a part of the Houston Independent School District. Long, in Sharpstown Section 1, serves portions of Sharpstown. The campus has a grade 6–8 neighborhood program together with a 9–12 Futures Academy, a non-zoned high school program that offers an associate degree track. Jane Long Academy currently serves approximately 750 students.