Zue S. Bales Zue Bales was eight years old when her parents, Lowry David and Lucinda Jane (Lula), moved their family from southeast Kansas to Montgomery County, Texas in a covered wagon in 1897. They came by train to Pearland, then to Friendswood by buggy in 1899. Zue grew up in Friendswood, attended the Quaker Academy, married and bore a son and a daughter. She returned to school and became a teacher and a principal at the Academy, was active in the community and church.Zue was an artist and musician and at the age of 57 she traveled as a faith missionary to Mexico for many years before she died peacefully in her sleep at age 89.

Proud to be a TEA Exemplary campus for the past twelve out of
thirteen years.

The school opened its doors in 1994. Zue S. Bales Intermediate School has an enrollment of 600 students in grades 4-6 and is located in the North Zone.

Bales offers instrumental band in the sixth grade. Fine arts and choir are offered to all three grades. Students have advanced to regional and world competition in the Odyssey of the Mind program and were state finalists in the TCEA robotics competition, and were 2005 state champions in the Academic Decathon's "Lone Star Challenge. Bales students also participate in advanced math programs, gifted and talented classes, Student Council, journalism club, after school sports programs, running club, and chess club. All students participate in community service projects throughout the year. In the past five years students have raised over $7,000 for the Galveston Ronald McDonald House, Invisible Children, and other charitable agencies.

School hours 8:10 a.m. to 3:10 p.m.

 

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Directions to Zue S. Bales Intermediate School: From Houston, take I 45 South, exit FM 2351 and take a right, go approximately 6 miles through town, beyond 518 on the right is Westwood Elementary. Take a right on Stadium Drive just past Westwood. Bales is on your immediate right.