The top six Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) cadets, who were named earlier this month, were honored on April 25 at the Annual HISD JROTC Final Review and Awards Ceremony. All were promoted to the rank of Cadet Colonel (Army) or Cadet Captain (Navy), which are the highest ranks in the program. The top […]
Two Houston Independent School District students are among more than 1,000 high school seniors from across the country to be selected this week to win a corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship. Sophia Cen of Bellaire High School received a $3,000 corporate-sponsored scholarship from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Henry Hoang of Carnegie Vanguard High School […]
Campus is fourth in a series of articles on magnet schools with space still available Students who attend Austin High School have two enticing study pathways available to them. They can embark on a path to becoming educators themselves through the school’s well-established teaching professions program, or they can explore careers in the thriving maritime […]
Five HISD high schools land in top 100 of America’s Most Challenging High Schools. A Houston Independent School District high school has been named as one of the top 10 high schools in the country, and four more have been listed among the top 100, according to the Washington Post. The five schools are among […]
Students win free trip to Calif. to present their work at NASA planetary science conference A team of three seniors and two juniors from Bellaire High School will be presenting its findings to professional scientists this summer, after winning the annual Exploration of the Moon and Asteroids by Secondary Students (ExMASS) contest. The ExMASS contest, […]
Twenty Burbank Middle Schools girls attended the Gulf Coast Young Women’s Leadership Symposium (YWLS) recently, where the theme was “Empowering Young Women with Tools to Become Leaders of Tomorrow.”
Rice University has chosen 21 HISD juniors and seniors to attend the 2015 Rice Summer Business Institute (RSBI). The program is designed to broaden the expectations of students from low and moderate income communities as to possible career paths and to develop business leaders for Houston’s future. Bryan Davila (Chávez HS); Melissa Guzman (Davis HS); […]
A group of educators from HISD, including three librarians—Jo Reed (Scroggins ES), Cheryl Hensley (MacGregor ES), and Sue Carnes (Bell ES; now retired)—was recognized recently with the Wayne Williams Library Project of the Year Award for 2015 by the Texas Library Association. The librarians were selected for coordinating schoolwide reading campaigns at their respective campuses based on […]
How do 21st century school designs support HISD’s mission to produce 21st century global graduates? As HISD works to build or renovate 40 schools under the district’s bond program, educational facilities planners, architects, and designers are collaborating with educators to address that question. Their mission is to develop innovative design concepts that will enrich the […]
HISD Nutrition Services has partnered with Nutrislice, a mobile menus app, to digitize its menus. This move will allow parents and students to access the most updated school menus from the convenience of their mobile devices, and to obtain nutritional information on every food item offered.