Zue S. Bales Intermediate School has an enrollment of 600 students in grades 4-6 and is located in the North Zone. The state of the art building opened in 1994. Bales Intermediate was named after Zue Stevenson Bales, a Friendswood pioneer educator, primitive artist, musician, and missionary. Bales offers instrumental band in the sixth grade. Fine arts and choir are offered to all three grades. Bales has been a TEA Exemplary campus for the past eleven out of twelve years.

 

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, Invisable Children, and other charitable agencies.