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The Houston Independent School District takeover is a 2023 takeover of the state's largest school district by the Texas Education Agency, replacing the superintendent and elected board of trustees with a board of managers and a new superintendent appointed by the Texas commissioner of education.
This is a list of schools operated by the Houston Independent School District. In the district, grades kindergarten through 5 are considered to be elementary school, grades 6 through 8 are considered to be middle school, and grades 9 through 12 are considered to be senior high school. Some elementary schools go up to the sixth grade.
On October 13, 2016, the Houston Independent School District Board of Trustees voted 7 to 2 to accept a naming rights contract from the Kinder Foundation for a $7.5 million for capital improvements to the new facility. The school's name was to become Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts when the school moved to the new downtown ...
In 1927, the Houston Independent School District founded its first community colleges, Houston Junior College (for whites), which later evolved into the University of Houston and the Houston College for African American students (now Texas Southern University). In 1971, the district founded HCCS after HJC's and HCN's evolutions into the ...
Houston teachers raise concern to the Texas State Board of Education about the school district's administration under the TEA.
Bellaire High School is a comprehensive, public secondary school in Bellaire, Texas. [2] Part of the Houston Independent School District, it serves the incorporated city of Bellaire, the Houston community of Meyerland, and other adjacent Houston neighborhoods. [3]
Scarborough was founded on a 21-acre (85,000 m 2) plot on May 27, 1968. [ citation needed ] The school relieved Waltrip High School . [ 3 ] Originally, the plan was for both a junior and senior high school, but it became a high school in 1979 when Clifton Middle School opened.
Margaret Downing of the Houston Press wrote that the school has had a "lasting stigma" due to its poor academic performance. [7] Kashmere, with Jack Yates High School and Sam Houston High School, were the three high schools in Houston ISD which were consistently low-performing in test scores from 2001 to 2004. Because of this problem, there ...