Record Number of Houston Schools Make Nation’s Top 9 Percent
Houston ISD high schools made their strongest showing ever this year in the prestigious Washington Post High School Challenge rankings that were released this week.
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HISD Claims Nearly One-Quarter of Texas’ Top High Schools
Record number of Houston Schools Make Nation’s Top 9 Percent Houston ISD high schools made their strongest showing ever this year in the prestigious Washington Post High School Challenge rankings that were released this week. The rankings are based on the number of college-level Advanced Placement exams attempted, the number of students passing at least […]
Board of Education Approves Two New Magnet Schools
New campuses will expand options for students seeking specialty schools with academically challenging courses The HISD Board of Education on Thursday approved creating two new magnet schools that will offer a highly rigorous curriculum emphasizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The newly created Energy Institute High School and the Baylor College of Medicine Academy at […]
Board of Education to Consider Two New Magnet Schools
Proposed campuses would expand options for students seeking specialty schools with academically challenging courses The HISD Board of Education will consider a proposal Thursday to create two new magnet schools that will offer a highly rigorous curriculum emphasizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics. If approved, the proposed Energy Institute High School and the Baylor College […]
Seven HISD Seniors Awarded National Achievement Scholarships
Ten percent of Texas winners are from HISD April 10, 2013 – Seven Houston Independent School District students have been named National Achievement Scholarship winners and will each receive a $2,500 scholarship for their undergraduate studies. Each year the National Merit Scholarship Corporation awards scholarships to African-American students who have excelled in academics and have […]
Ryan Middle School Plan Approved By Board
Ryan students will move to nearby Cullen; Vote postponed on plan to merge Sterling and Jones high schools The HISD Board of Education on Thursday approved a transition plan that will allow historic Ryan Middle School to be repurposed as a magnet school designed to attract students from throughout the city.
It’s decision time for students: magnet admission status letters go out March 22
Starting March 25, parents will have two weeks to let schools know where they want to send their children this fall. Letters notifying parents of their children’s magnet application status will be mailed out starting Friday, March 22, and students who are “accepted” must indicate that they will attend their school of choice during […]
HISD Announces Meetings to Discuss School Transition Plans
Sterling HS students will move to Jones HS campus during construction; Ryan MS students would move to Cullen MS Four community meetings have been scheduled for Tuesday, February 26 to discuss HISD’s plan move students out of two school buildings at the end of this school year. Under the plan, the current student bodies of […]
New HISD Magnet Schools Proposal to be Considered
School board to weigh applying for $12 million grant to open eight magnets focused on science, technology, engineering and math The HISD Board of Education is set to decide this week whether to compete for $12 million in federal funding to open eight new magnet schools emphasizing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) instruction. All […]
HISD Students Selected to Represent Houston in Inaugural ‘Posse’ Group
Posse Foundation to send 23 HISD Students to Elite Universities The Posse Foundation, a national nonprofit organization designed to send students from urban districts to elite universities to serve in a pre-established peer support network, selected 23 HISD students to represent the city.