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As of 2011 few Woodland Heights/Norhill-area parents sent their children to Hogg, and they instead used HISD middle schools in other areas. As of 2014 the school's test scores were below average. By 2014 the IB program had been established, the number of disciplinary reports declined and became among the smallest in the entire district.
A 2003 The New York Times report which asserted that HISD did not report school violence to the police created controversy in the community as teachers, students, and parents expressed concern about the district's downplaying of campus violence. [26] HISD officials held a news conference after the publication of the story.
The school has HISD's magnet program for Teaching Professions. The Port of Houston Maritime Academy was scheduled to come to Austin High School in August 2009. [3] The school is about 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast from Downtown Houston. [4]
HISD officials said that the district had little difficulty opening the three schools in the middle of the year, since the same teachers had been teaching the same students while they occupied the previously overcrowded schools in the preceding fall. [20] On its opening day Benavidez referred 400 students to other schools due to overcrowding. [21]
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]
Jane Long Academy, formerly Jane Long Middle School, is a public grade 6–12 middle and high school in Sharpstown, Houston, Texas.It is a part of the Houston Independent School District.
Lamar High School is a comprehensive public secondary school located in Houston, Texas, United States.It is a part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD). Lamar High School, was established in 1936 in memory of Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798–1859), a leader in the Texas Revolution and the second President of the Republic of Texas.
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]