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Cooley Elementary School (300 West 17th, Closed 1980 - The building, now the Cooley Center, is the headquarters of HISD's alternative certification program. [74]) Joseph H. Crawford Elementary School (Houston) It formerly served sections of the Fifth Ward, Downtown Houston, and the Near Northside [190]
On June 1, 2023, the Texas Education Agency released the names of the superintendent and board of managers appointed by Mike Morath to lead the district. [9] Mike Miles , the charter school leader and former superintendent of Dallas Independent School District whose time overlapped with Morath as a board member, was named as the superintendent.
Traditional: Gregory Lincoln Education Center (zoned school) (Houston); Alternative: Briarmeadow Charter School (HISD charter school) (Houston) Named after the Briarmeadow community, [1] it was created in 1997, with 125 students, [2] to relieve Piney Point and three other elementary schools. [3]
[17] [18] HISD has seen significant staff turnover since Miles' appointment, with more than 10,000 employees leaving as of June 2024. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] In August 2023, his administration sought various policy changes to increase Miles' authority, including an increase in the purchasing threshold requiring board approval from $100,000 to $2 million ...
In 2007, 6% of high school-aged children zoned to Westside chose to attend alternative Houston ISD schools. [18] In 2010, Richard Connelly of the Houston Press said that Westside became "something of a success story for HISD." [19] In 2010, Castro was transferred to become the new principal of Lee High School (now Margaret Long Wisdom High ...
In 2023 the Texas Education Agency announced that it will remove the superintendent and the board of trustees, and therefore begin to directly control HISD. [47] The Houston Independent School District takeover formally began on June 1, 2023 with the appointment of a new superintendent and board of managers. [ 48 ]
Police arrested a 16-year-old described by HISD officials as a "disturbed freshman." [11] In December 1991, Milby was one of the largest high schools in Texas, with 3,617 students. Due to the overcrowding, by that month Houston ISD trustees approved a plan to open a new high school in September 1995 instead of in 1997. [12]
DeBakey has no feeder patterns since it is a magnet school, so no students are zoned to it. DeBakey accepts children from many Houston ISD middle schools. Some students who are enrolled in private schools in the 8th grade choose to go to DeBakey for high school. [27] [28]