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Traditional: Gregory Lincoln Education Center (zoned school) (Houston); Alternative: Briarmeadow Charter School (HISD charter school) (Houston) Named after the Briarmeadow community, [1] it was created in 1997, with 125 students, [2] to relieve Piney Point and three other elementary schools. [3]
Houston ISD grants school bus transportation to any Houston ISD resident attending his or her zoned school or attending a magnet program who lives 2 miles (3.2 km) or more away from the campus (as measured by the nearest public roads) or must cross treacherous obstacles in order to reach the campus. Certain special education students are also ...
With the exception of 2020-2021 during the pandemic, HISD saw its biggest enrollment drop in a decade after the takeover, increasing concerns about the sustainability of Miles' plans and reforms. [22] New Education System (NES) schools saw large drops in student enrollment compared to the rest of the district. [23]
The HISD board approved the renaming of the school to Leland College Preparatory Academy in 2014. [6] HISD built the permanent Leland school on the site of the former Carter Career Center, which once served as Wheatley High School and E.O. Smith. The new building used a similar architectural style to the original. [7]
Edgar Gregory-Abraham Lincoln Education Center [2] (GLEC) is a K-8 school located at 1101 Taft in the Fourth Ward area of Houston, Texas, United States. [3] Gregory-Lincoln is a part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and has a fine arts magnet program that takes students in both the elementary and middle school levels.
Prior to July 1, 2018, the school served as its own self-contained secondary school. Since June 2018, Jordan is a regional career education hub for students enrolled at other HISD high schools. When it was its own high school it had a program for high school-aged deaf pupils. The center was named after politician Barbara Jordan.
HISD Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at T.H. Rogers served students of all ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds from age 3 through middle school. The program's philosophy is Total Communication which encourages teachers to use an array of materials and resources to help the students reach their maximum potential.
The greater Houston area is home to a large homeschooling community with an estimated 40 to 50 thousand homeschooled students, based on 300,000 homeschool students in Texas [28] and 2.04 million in the U.S. [29] Over 100 organizations, support groups, and co-ops provide classes and resources for homeschool families.