La Marque, Texas City of La Marque Location of La Marque, Texas Location of La Marque, Texas La Marque (/l m rk/ l mark) is a town/city in Galveston County, approximately 50 miles south of Houston, Texas.
During this reconstructionof growth, La Marque provided a general administrative, trades and crafts workforce helping to support the petrochemical complex in adjoining Texas City.
La Marque, also known as Highlands and as Buttermilk Junction, is an incorporated residentiary improve on Interstate Highway 45, State Highway 3, and Farm roads 519, 1765, and 2004, some twelve miles northwest of Galveston in northwestern Galveston County.
At that time La Marque had both a barns station and general store positioned in a private home.
As it interval together with close-by Texas City, La Marque served as a residentiary improve for employees at a close-by industrial facilities (e.g., chemical plants and refineries) in the La Marque-Texas City area, as well as the Galveston Island Medical Center.
In the 2000s, rising real estate costs in Galveston forced many families to move to other areas, including La Marque.
This meant an influx of kids from the Galveston Independent School District into other school districts.
In spite of this fact, the number of kids enrolled in the La Marque Independent School District has continued to fall. La Marque is positioned at 29 22 00 N 94 58 26 W (29.366684, -94.973922). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 14.3 square miles (37 km2), of which, 14.2 square miles (37 km2) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (0.28%) is water.
La Marque City Hall The United States Postal Service La Marque Post Office is positioned at 509 Laurel Street. La Marque Independent School District was mis-managed for so long that it was finally dissolved, when it was assigned by the commissioner of education an accreditation status of "Not Accredited-Revoked." Accordingly, Texas City, Hitchcock, Dickinson, and Santa Fe school districts jointly combined the responsibility of educating La Marque students.
Before shutting down the school district, Commissioner of Education Michael Williams gave the La Marque schools sizeable opportunity and time for improvement.
Similarly, in 2013 and 2014, La Marque schools were given a rating of "improvement required." Finally, an October 2015 review by the TEA found La Marque ISD's rating at "substandard achievement." Most of the town/city is served by the Texas City Independent School District (TCISD).
La Marque High School serves that portion.
Small portions of La Marque are served by the Dickinson Independent School District, Hitchcock Independent School District, and the Santa Fe Independent School District.
On December 2, 2015, Texas Education Agency (TEA) Commissioner Michael Williams announced that TCISD would absorb the former La Marque Independent School District (LMISD) effective July 1, 2016. All of La Marque is served by the College of the Mainland.
The town/city owns the La Marque Public Library, which is positioned at 1101 Bayou Road. Greyhound Bus Lines operates the Texas City La Marque Station at Mc - Kown Air Conditioning in close-by Texas City. "TEA: Texas City ISD to annex La Marque ISD ." "Texas City ISD will annex La Marque ISD into its school precinct beginning in the 2016-17 school year." City of La Marque.
"Texas City La Marque, Texas." City of La Marque La Marque, Texas from the Handbook of Texas Online Municipalities and communities of Galveston County, Texas, United States
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