The River Oaks post office sits on a property with a gross building area of . The headquarters of Baker Hughes is in the America Tower at the American General Center Service Corporation International has its headquarters in Neartown. On July 1, 1983 Continental Airlines's headquarters were located at the America Tower in Neartown, and would remain there until the relocation to Continental Center I in Downtown Houston, announced by the airline in 1997, that occurred in stages in 1998 and 1999. Prior to Hurricane Harvey, the studios of KHOU-TV were located along Allen Parkway in Neartown. On November 16, 2017, the station announced that it will not return to the Allen Parkway studios after the building suffered severe damage from the hurricane's floodwaters. Neartown is home to the University of Saint Thomas. Neartown is also close to Rice University, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, the University of Houston, Texas Southern University, Houston Community College Central, and University of Houston–Downtown. Pupils in Neartown are in the Houston Independent School District. Neartown is divided among Trustee District IV, represented by Paula M. Harris as of 2008, Trustee District V, represented by Dianne Johnson as of 2008, and Trustee District VIII, represented by Diana Dávila as of 2008. Gregory-Lincoln Education Center (in the Fourth Ward), MacGregor Elementary School, Poe Elementary School (in Boulevard Oaks), Wharton Elementary School (in Neartown), and Wilson Montessori School (in Neartown) serve separate sections of Neartown. Pupils in Neartown reside within the boundaries of three middle-school attendance areas. Lanier Middle School (in Neartown), Cullen Middle School, and Gregory-Lincoln Education Center serve separate sections of Neartown. All Neartown area pupils are zoned to Lamar High School in Upper Kirby. In Fall 2019 Arabic Immersion Magnet School is scheduled to move into the former High School for the Performing and Visual Arts building. For a period, Montrose Elementary School was in Neartown. Southmore Elementary School opened in 1921, Wilson in 1925, Lanier in 1926, Poe in 1928, and Wharton in 1929. Southmore was renamed MacGregor Elementary School in 1930 and Lamar opened in 1937. Ryan opened in 1958 after Yates High School moved to a new campus. Gregory-Lincoln opened in 1966 and its current facility opened in 2007. Before the start of the 2009–2010 school year J.