Five Houston ISD seniors have been named semifinalists in the 2015 National Achievement Scholarship Program. The program, which is conducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, awards scholarship to academically promising black students. About 700 of the 1,600 semifinalists will go on to receive scholarships worth $2,500 each.
Fifty-six students from six Houston ISD high schools are semifinalists in the 60th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The students, who attend Bellaire HS, Carnegie Vanguard HS, Challenge Early College HS, DeBakey HS, The High School for Performing and Visual Arts, and Lamar HS, are eligible to receive part of the $33 million pot of […]
This is the seventh in a series of stories counting down to the start of school, spotlighting what is new in HISD in the coming year. As campuses head into the new school year, expect to see lots of work going on in HISD, with simultaneous work on two bond programs. Over the next several months, […]
12 schools earn recognition for both high performance and progress The Texas Education Agency has recognized several HISD schools for high performance and high progress for the 2013-2014 school year. Seventeen HISD schools were included on the agency’s list of Title I High Performing Schools and 17 schools were named as High Progress schools. “The […]
High school students looking to boost their PSAT scores tested their math and reading skills against peers Monday in a challenging game of fill-in-the-blank-sentences, vocabulary connotations and math problems.
More than a dozen students from six HISD high schools are $16,000 closer to achieving their dreams of higher education, thanks to an organization founded by the descendant of an HISD school’s namesake and her husband.
For recent Reagan High School graduate Kody Ford to even be alive today is nothing short of a miracle. The Class of 2014 member not only confounded doctors by proving virtually every grim prognosis about him wrong as a baby, he also managed to graduate last month with a perfect 12-year attendance record—less than nine […]
A love of knowledge and a taste for trivia have brought two students from HISD’s T.H. Rogers School recognition on the national stage. Gram Brinson, who will enter HISD’s DeBakey High School for Health Professions as a freshman this fall, and Shomik Ghose, now an eighth-grader at T. H. Rogers, won the 2014 Team Bowl […]
Each year the Board of Education recognizes distinguished seniors from HISD high schools in recognition of their total accomplishments exemplified by their character, academic achievement, leadership, and service. Selection is made by a school committee appointed by the principal and the award is presented by the board trustee during commencement exercises. An outstanding young man […]
The late philanthropists Jesse H. Jones and his wife, Mary Gibbs Jones, were stalwart believers in the power of education to improve people’s quality of life. It’s one of the reasons they founded the Jones Scholars program through the Houston Endowment in 1958, and since its inception, that organization has provided more than $94 million […]