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By the 1990s HISD's student body was increasingly made up of racial and ethnic minority groups. [77] In 1999 4,400 students in the HISD boundaries were attending state-chartered schools. [78] Of the 9th graders that were in the graduating classes of 2004-2005 in the district, 15% successfully obtained bachelor of arts and bachelor of science ...
Forest Brook Middle School became a part of HISD during the merger with the North Forest Independent School District on July 1, 2013. [20] 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.
The school opened in August, 2011 for the 6th and 9th grades, and would gradually become a middle and high school. It first opened in the E.O. Smith Education Center campus in the Fifth Ward. The district modeled the school off of the Chicago Urban Prep Academy in Chicago. The school has admission requirements. [1]
In 2016 the Texas Education Agency (TEA) was ordering the school shut down due to academic issues, [3] but the HISD board voted in favor of establishing a partnership with the charter school to keep it in operation on April 14, 2016, with five board members in favor and two against. HISD was to get an oversight role, but not directly manage the ...
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 ...
Prior to July 1, 2018, the school served as its own self-contained secondary school. Since June 2018, Jordan is a regional career education hub for students enrolled at other HISD high schools. When it was its own high school it had a program for high school-aged deaf pupils. The center was named after politician Barbara Jordan.
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.
The school is located in the Third Ward area. [1] The Foundation for the Education of Young Women and HISD partnered in order to develop the school. The foundation committed $1 million to start the school. The plan initially called for the school to be housed at CLC, but the agenda items, including the plan, were tabled until December 2010. [2]