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HISD has an online high school offering regular, AP, and credit-recovery courses at its virtual school. For grades 3-12 offers online schooling through Texas Connections Academy @ Houston , which is operated under contract by Connections Academy , a Maryland -based company which works with public and other schools to provide online education.
Miles is considering bringing a list of schools for potential closure ahead of the 2024-2025 school year as a cost-savings measure. The district projects a budget deficit of almost $250 million after implementing Miles' reforms, however the district currently has enough in reserves to cover the costs.
Houston ISD's "West Region," which includes Walnut Bend and Revere, had about one-fifth of Houston ISD's schools but contained more than half of the 5,500 Katrina evacuees in Houston schools. At the start of the 2006-2007 school year, around 2,900 Hurricane Katrina evacuees were still enrolled in Houston ISD schools.
Park Place opened in 1915, as a part of the City of Park Place. The land was donated by the Park Place Development Company. The city government renovated the school in 1925, and HISD annexed the school in 1927. [124] The original campus was built to house 255 children. In 1992 it had 944 students.
St. John's School (also known as St. John's or SJS) is a coeducational, independent K–12 day school in Houston, Texas, United States.The School was founded in 1946 and is a member of the Houston Area Independent Schools, the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS), and the Southwest Preparatory Conference (SPC).
Charles H. Milby High School is a public secondary school at 1601 Broadway in the East End, Houston, Texas, United States. [3] It serves grades 9 through 12, and is a part of the Houston Independent School District. Milby is located inside the 610 Loop in southeast Houston. The school contains Houston ISD's Science Institute Magnet Program.
In 2013, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency. [2] The school, named after Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas", is located in the East End. The neighborhood was developed in the 1920s, and the school's Art Deco architecture reflects this. The school has HISD's magnet program for Teaching Professions.
On February 12, 2016, the HISD board voted to require Lanier to change its name again to purge HISD of school names based on Confederate figures, even though Lanier's students approved of keeping the school's name. [7] Former teacher Jim Henley stated that Lanier was known as a creative artist and that he was not known as a Confederate soldier. [8]