 By 2017 the HISD administration suspended uniforms in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, but Simmons was trying to reintroduce them to combat gang issues; according to a friend of Simmons quoted in the "Houston Press", HISD administrators were uninterested in allowing more high schools to have uniforms.Furr serves several Houston neighborhoods in eastern Houston inside and outside the 610 Loop, including Clinton Park, Pleasantville, Port Houston, Songwood Homes, Oates Prairie and Northshore-area neighborhoods north of Market Street and west of the Greens Bayou.The school also serves the Houston ISD portion of Jacinto City.