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HISD students and teachers prepare for upcoming final exams
HISD students will tackle final exams for the fall semester in the days leading up to Winter Break, which begins Thursday, Dec. 22.
Continue readingTeach Plus names 11 HISD educators to its state policy fellowship cohort
The national nonprofit Teach Plus has selected 45 Texas teachers to be a part of its 2022-2023 Policy Fellowship cohort, and 11 of them are from HISD.
Continue reading51 HISD seniors named semifinalists in National Merit Scholarship Program
The National Merit Scholarship Program has selected 51 Houston Independent School District seniors as semifinalists for the 2022-2023 scholarship competition year.
The scholarship program gives seniors the opportunity to compete for about 7,250 monetary scholarships to help jumpstart their college careers.
Continue readingStudents from three HISD high schools named 2022 National Merit Scholarship winners
Students from three Houston Independent School District high schools are members of the first group of 2022 National Merit Scholarship winners.
Continue readingBellaire HS Class of 2022 has record-breaking 13 valedictorians
Bellaire High School has 13 valedictorians in the Class of 2022, surpassing last year’s record-breaking nine students who graduated with a perfect grade point average.
Continue readingMayor’s Youth Council names 14 HISD students to 2021-2022 term
Fourteen HISD students were named to Mayor Sylvester Turner’s 2021-2022 Mayor’s Youth Council (MYC).
In total, 17 students from the Houston area were selected out of more than 100 applicants after an application and interview process conducted by a selection committee. Students will learn about city government, share issues of concern with city officials, and gain civic leadership skills through community service activities.
Continue readingNational Merit Scholarship Program names 47 HISD seniors as semifinalists
The National Merit Scholarship Program has named 47 HISD seniors from seven schools as 2021 semifinalists.
The seniors have an opportunity to compete for approximately 7,600 scholarships worth more than $30 million that will be offered next spring. Nationwide there are approximately 16,000 semifinalists in the 66th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
Continue readingRecap of the first week of school at HISD
New building, classrooms impress Bellaire HS students
The familiar hoots and hollers of classmates returning to campus on the first day of school were replaced by “oohs” and “aahs” as students entered the new Bellaire High School for the first time on Monday.
Eleventh-grader Carter Sasser said everyone gathered at school early to meet up with friends and get their first glimpse of the new building.
“This place is impressive, especially the new pool and gym and the new lockers,” Sasser said. “The stairs are commons areas we didn’t have in the old building.”