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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.
The HISD board voted to give the school its current name in 2016. ... 1,168 students were enrolled at Northside. 94% of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
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.
That year, the HISD school board was to vote on whether to close Dodson Elementary. Terry Grier, the HISD superintendent, argued that Dodson needs to close so another school will be located there while its permanent facility is under construction. [194] On Thursday March 13, 2014, the HISD board voted to close Dodson Elementary 5-4. [193]
[36] The student mix was 40% White, 30% Black, 28% Hispanic, and 1% Asian. 9% of students qualified for free and reduced lunch. According to HISD standards, all of the students were gifted and talented. McAdams wrote that most of the minority children classified as gifted and talented by HISD came from middle class households. [36]
In addition, 45% of the students were on free or reduced lunch. In 2008 Ouchi characterized the student body as "diverse". [19] Deason stated in 1999 that the student body, smaller than that of comprehensive high schools, "creates a family atmosphere"; that year there were 730 students. [12] The school offers more than twenty-five clubs.
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]
Waltrip has Houston ISD's Research and Technology magnet program. The school's namesake is a former principal at the defunct Houston Heights High School, [ 2 ] who transferred to Reagan High School (now renamed Heights High School ) after that school replaced the original Houston Heights High.