School History
Many different names and grade levels have occupied what eventually would become Carroll Elementary during the 1990-91 school year. The site originally opened in 1942 as Jefferson Davis High School, and then was part of the W.W. White School District. A junior high school building was added in 1948. When that school district consolidated with the SAISD in 1950 the site became Sam Houston Junior-Senior High School.
In 1959 the higher grades moved to the new Sam Houston High School on East Houston Street. After the move the Davis name was restored to the Holmgreen campus. For 10 years the site was known as Jefferson Davis Elementary-Junior School, and operated under one principal. The elementary grades were phased out in 1969.
In the mid 1970s the campus became Davis Middle School when the SAISD discontinued the junior high system. In 1989 Davis Middle School moved to the former Portwood Junior High across the street from Sam Houston High School. During the 1989-90 school year the Holmgreen site became Ball Intermediate School, and was used to relieve overcrowding at Ball Elementary. 
In the spring of 1990 school zones were revised throughout SAISD to equalize enrollment. Part of the revision included establishing an elementary school at the Holmgreen campus, which subsequently was named for longtime SAISD assistant athletic director the late Henry Carroll.
During the 2003-04 school year Carroll became a pre-kinder to 6 academy, later adding grades 7 and 8. During the 2004-05 Carroll was one of five East Side campuses that obtained internal charter school status with an emphasis on an increased alignment – or cohesion- of the curriculum for all grades and subjects. The school closed due to declining enrollment in June 2008
In 2009, SAISD began offering Head Start services through the district. Henry Carroll was re-opened, and now serves as an early childhood campus.
Since 2009, the campus has grown from proving preschool education to 3 and 4 year olds to including Kindergarten through 2nd Grade as of the 2020 - 2021 school year.
Henry A. Carroll Sr. was born in Richland, Texas on February 28, 1924. He attended public schools in Waco, Texas and graduated from A. J. Moore High School in 1941 where he was an outstanding football player and named to the High School All-State Team. He attended Wiley College in Marshall, Texas where he was voted an All-American in football. He received his B.A. Degree from Sam Houston College in Austin, Texas and completed his graduate work at Prairie View A&M where he received his Masters Degree.
He began teaching at Sam Houston College in Austin, Texas and later taught and coached at Crockett and Palestine, Texas public schools. He moved to San Antonio and began a 17 year period as a teacher and coach at the old Wheatley High School. He was then reassigned to Brackenridge High School where he taught and coached for 4 years. He later became an Assistant Athletic Director for SAISD’s Athletic Office and served there until he retired in 1986 after 39 years in education.