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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 ...
A 2020 investigation by the Houston Chronicle found that the school district's suspension rate increased dramatically during the first year of the takeover, and continued to increase to the point where students were suspended at a rate six times the average for Texas school districts. During the 2018-2019 school year, Beaumont ISD had a rate of ...
The HISD board had approved the consolidation on November 12, 2008 despite the opposition of Sheila Jackson Lee and Sammye Prince Hughes, the head of the Turner parent-teacher organization and the president of the Southwood Civic Club. [96] In 2009 Turner, which occupied a building from the 1920s, had 259 students. [243] Other former schools:
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.
Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School is a primary school located at 5100 Hazard Street in Houston, Texas, United States.A part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD), the school, which was built during the 1920s, [2] is located in the Chevy Chase subdivision of the Boulevard Oaks neighborhood west of Rice University. [3]
Kashmere, during the 2014-2015 school year, had a total of 585 students, giving it the lowest enrollment of any HISD comprehensive high school. Of the students, 72% were African American and 27% were Hispanic American. About 20% were eligible to take special education classes. The majority of the students were classified as low income. [10]
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.
On March 13, 2014, the HISD board voted 6-3 to keep the Jones campus open and convert it into an alternative career-readiness school for students throughout HISD. [17] In the new Jones, students may earn associates degrees. [18] Jones will no longer be a zoned school, and its athletics programs will be discontinued. [17] Students wishing to ...