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In preparation for university and possible careers in international business, students are required to complete two service-learning projects, four years of foreign language study, and the curriculum required by the Texas Scholars program. To graduate, they must also complete a 180-hour, internationally focused internship.
Each vanguard program is a gifted and talented program for students throughout HISD. A neighborhood vanguard program is a program designed for gifted and talented children zoned to a particular school. [53] As of 2011, its 113 programs served almost 20% of the HISD student population. [54]
In 1996 37% of West University Elementary students had transferred there from other schools. In 2015 West U Elementary had 1,274 students, making it HISD's largest elementary school, with 96% of the students living inside the attendance zone. [173] Tina E. Whidby Elementary School (Houston) Edward White Elementary School (Houston)
When HISD assumed control, the facilities were in a damaged state, 30-40% of students were habitually late to school, and 75-80% of students performed below grade level. Rick Fernandez became principal in 2013, and Tannisha Gentry, his assistant, succeeded him when he left to become principal of North Forest High School in 2015.
HISD is the largest school district in Rusk County. Current enrollment is 3,365 students and the district employees just over 600 teachers, administrators and support staff. For the 2022-2023 fiscal year, the district has budgeted $41,079,314 in total revenues and $40,465,506 in expenses. [1]
Located in the Houston Heights neighborhood, it serves 96% at-risk students [2] and partners with Houston Community College to give students the opportunity to gain college credit during their junior and/or senior years, including in the area of construction management.
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]
Chavez fields eighteen varsity teams in the University Interscholastic League's Region III, District 20-5A with the Houston Independent School District's largest high schools. The campus has a field house that includes an athletic training room, weight room, team meeting rooms, coaches' offices, coaches and officials' lockers, and large locker ...