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==History==
==History==
Houston ISD was established in the [[1920s]], after the Texas Legislature voted to separate school and municipal governments. Houston ISD replaced the [[Harrisburg School District (Texas)|Harrisburg School District]].
Houston ISD was established in the [[1920s]], after the Texas Legislature voted to separate school and municipal governments. Houston ISD replaced the [[Harrisburg School District (Texas)|Harrisburg School District]].


Houston ISD absorbed portions of the [[White Oak Independent School District (Harris County, Texas)|White Oak Independent School District]] in [[1937]].
Houston ISD absorbed portions of the [[White Oak Independent School District (Harris County, Texas)|White Oak Independent School District]] in [[1937]].
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===Hurricane Katrina===
===Hurricane Katrina===
In 2005, HISD enrolled evacuees from the areas affected by [[Hurricane Katrina]] who were residing in Houston. The [[Houston Astrodome]], the shelter used for hurricane evacuees, is located within the HISD boundaries.
In 2005, HISD in rolled evacuees from the areas effected by [[Hurricane Katrina]] who were siding in Houston. The [[Houston Astrodome]], the shelter used for hurricane evacuees, is located within the HISD boundaries.


Many Katrina evacuees stayed for the long term within the Houston ISD boundaries. Walnut Bend Elementary School's enrollment jumped from around 600 to around 800 with the addition of 184 evacuees; Walnut Bend, out of all of the Houston-area elementary schools, has taken in the most Katrina victims [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/05/katrina/3399167.html]. Nearby Paul Revere Middle School, located in the [[Westchase, Houston, Texas|Westchase]] district, gained 137 Katrina victims. Revere, out of all of the Houston-area middle schools, has taken in the most Katrina victims.
Many Katrina evacuees stayed for the long term withinout the Houston ISD boundaries pee pee. Walnut Bend Elementary School's enrollment jumped from around 600 to around 800 with the addition of 184 evacuees; Walnut Bend, out of all of the Houston-area elementary schools, has taken in the most Katrina victims [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/05/katrina/3399167.html]. Nearby Paul Revere Middle School, located in the [[Westchase, Houston, Texas|Westchase]] district, gained 137 Katrina victims. Revere, out of all of the Houston-area middle schools, has taken in the most Katrina victims.


Houston ISD's "West Region," which includes Walnut Bend and Revere, has about 1/5th of Houston ISD's schools but contained more than half of the 5,500 evacuees in Houston schools.
Houston ISD's "West Region," which includes Walnut Bend and Revere, has about 1/5th of Houston ISD's schools but contained more than half of the 5,500 evacuees in Houston schools.

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The Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center
The first Hattie Mae White Administration Building. It has been sold and has been demolished. The building has been replaced by the new Hattie Mae White Administration Building.

The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas and the seventh largest in the United States. Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and insular municipalities.

In the 2004–2005 school year, HISD had 302 campuses, approximately 209,000 students and over 12,000 teachers. With over 30,000 employees, HISD is one of the largest employers in the city of Houston.

HISD is highly regarded for the bilingual education of its predominantly Hispanic student body (including recruiting teachers from Mexico, Spain, and Central and South America) and its magnet (Performing Arts, Science, Health Professions, Law Enforcement, etc) High Schools are considered a model for other urban school districts as a way to provide a high quality education and keep top performing students in the inner city from fleeing to private schools or exurban school districts.

History

Houston ISD was established in the 1920s, after the Texas Legislature voted to separate school and municipal governments. Houston ISD replaced the Harrisburg School District.

Houston ISD absorbed portions of the White Oak Independent School District in 1937.

Houston ISD was desegregated by 1970. Some Hispanics felt they were being discriminated against when they were being put with only African Americans as part of the desegregation plan, so many took their children out of the schools and put them in "huelgas," or protest schools, until a ruling in 1973 satisfied their demands.

Secession movements

In the 1950s Northeast Houston Independent School District, now North Forest ISD, seceded from Houston ISD.

In 1977, group of citizens in western Houston tried to form Westheimer Independent School District out of a portion of Houston ISD. The United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit rejected [1] the appeals after formation of the district was denied.

HISD once served the Harris County portion of Stafford, until the Stafford Municipal School District was established in 1982 to serve the entire city of Stafford. Most of Stafford was in Fort Bend ISD, with a miniscule amount in Houston ISD.

Hurricane Katrina

In 2005, HISD in rolled evacuees from the areas effected by Hurricane Katrina who were siding in Houston. The Houston Astrodome, the shelter used for hurricane evacuees, is located within the HISD boundaries.

Many Katrina evacuees stayed for the long term withinout the Houston ISD boundaries pee pee. Walnut Bend Elementary School's enrollment jumped from around 600 to around 800 with the addition of 184 evacuees; Walnut Bend, out of all of the Houston-area elementary schools, has taken in the most Katrina victims [2]. Nearby Paul Revere Middle School, located in the Westchase district, gained 137 Katrina victims. Revere, out of all of the Houston-area middle schools, has taken in the most Katrina victims.

Houston ISD's "West Region," which includes Walnut Bend and Revere, has about 1/5th of Houston ISD's schools but contained more than half of the 5,500 evacuees in Houston schools.

At the start of the 2006-2007 school year, around 2,900 Hurricane Katrina evacuees were still enrolled in Houston ISD schools [3]. Around 700 of them were held back due to poor academic performance. 41% of evacuee 10th graders and 52% of evacuee juniors were held back.

New administration building

Houston ISD's administration building from since July 1970 to March 2006, the Hattie Mae White Administration Building (located at 3830 Richmond Avenue), was labelled the "Taj Mahal" due to the confusing layout of the complex. The 201,150 square foot complex cost six million United States dollars. The building had tropical indoor atriums, causing critics to criticize the spending priorities of the district. When the district considered cutting a popular kindergarten program for financial reasons, taxpayers voted many board members out of office.

The administration moved into a new complex in northwest Houston (located at 4400 West 18th Street) in spring 2006. The district sold the old complex for to a company which plans to demolish the site and developed mixed-use commercial property for $38 million; demolition began on September 14, 2006. Demolition crews demolished Will Rogers Elementary School, an adjacent elementary school located at 3101 Weslayan that closed in spring 2006.

Houston ISD named the new administration building "Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center" [4].

Governance

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A Hewlett-Packard Compaq computer and a Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 5740 printer owned by Houston ISD

The current superintendent of Houston ISD is Abelardo Saavedra.

The members of the Board of Education are:

Other members include: Natasha M. Kamrani (District I), Kevin H. Hoffman (District II), Dianne Johnson (District V), and Lawrence Marshall (District IX).

Superintendents

Rod Paige, former Houston ISD Superintendent

Former HISD superintendent Rod Paige pushed the district into new heights with the PEER Program. Improving scores from its schools have caused a lot of praise from others nationwide. Kaye Stripling took over when Rod Paige headed to Washington, DC as part of United States President George W. Bush's administration cabinet. After Stripling stepped down as the interim Superintendent, Abelardo Saavedra became the superintendent of the district on December 9, 2004.

Political divisions

Schools in Houston ISD are organized into "Regional Districts". Each district has its own Regional Superintendent.

There are five regional districts in Houston ISD:

  • Central Regional District
  • East Regional District
  • North Regional District
  • South Regional District
  • West Regional District

Houston ISD television channel

Houses in the Houston ISD area get the Houston ISD channel on cable [5].

HISD coverage area

Lamar High School is Houston ISD's largest high school
Bellaire High School is Houston ISD's second largest high school

The district covers most of the greater-Houston area, including all of the cities of Bellaire, West University Place, Southside Place, and most of the area within the Houston city limits. HISD also takes in students from the Harris County portion of Missouri City, a portion of Jacinto City, a small portion of Hunters Creek Village, a small portion of Piney Point Village, and a small portion of Pearland. HISD also takes students from unincorporated areas of Harris County. The district covers 300.2 square miles of land.

All of the HISD area lies within the taxation area for the Houston Community College System.

Cities

Houston ISD covers all of the following municipalities:

Houston ISD covers portions of the following municipalities:

Transportation

A Houston ISD CE300 school bus made by IC Corporation

Houston ISD grants school bus transportation to any Houston ISD resident attending his or her zoned school or attending a magnet program who lives two miles or more away from the campus or must cross treacherous obstacles in order to reach the campus [6].

Certain special education students are also permitted to use school bus transportation.

List of schools

In HISD 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 high school. Some elementary schools go up to the sixth grade.

Every house in HISD is assigned to an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school. HISD has many alternative programs and transfer options available to students who want a specialized education and/or dislike their home schools.

EE-12 schools

The school in this list is not a traditional school.

T.H. Rogers School
The Rice School
Woodson K-8 School
  • T.H. Rogers School, in Houston, is unique in that it is part Vanguard school (K-8), part school for the deaf (K-8), and part school for multiply impaired children (K-12). The Vanguard program at this school is known as an academically rigorous program in Texas.

EE-8 schools

Traditional

1 in the city of Houston

Other

1 in the city of Houston

PK-8 schools

1 in the city of Houston

Other

1 in the city of Houston

  • Kandy Stripe Academy (Houston)

K-8 schools

The school in this list is not a traditional school.

1-8 schools

Secondary schools

6-12 schools

7-12 schools

  • Contemporary Learning Center (Houston)
  • H.P. Carter Career Center (includes Kay On-Going Education Center High School - A school for pregnant teenagers) (Houston)

High schools

Westbury High School

40 in Houston, 1 in Bellaire

Traditional schools
23 in Houston, 1 in Bellaire

AAAAA (Division 5-A)
8 in Houston, 1 in Bellaire

Reagan High School

AAAA (Division 4A)
15 in Houston

Other

Carnegie Vanguard High School
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

21 in Houston AAAAA (Division 5A)
1 in Houston

  • Carnegie Vanguard High School (Houston) - Carnegie Vanguard is a small magnet high school. Carnegie was placed in division 5A since the school can choose its students.

No UIL ranking
16 in Houston

Middle schools

Pershing Middle School
Lanier Middle School
Pin Oak Middle School
Johnston Middle School
Grady Middle School

23 in the city of Houston, 1 in the city of Bellaire

Traditional schools
14 in Houston, 1 in Bellaire

Other
8 in Houston

  • Dominion Academy Charter School (Houston)
  • Energized For Excellence Middle School (Houston)
  • Kaleidoscope/Caleidoscopio (Houston)
  • Las Américas Middle School (Houston)
  • Project Chrysalis Middle School (Houston)
  • Pro-Vision School (Houston)
  • Soar Center (Houston)
  • William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity (Walipp) Preparatory Academy for Boys (Houston)

Primary Schools

River Oaks Elementary School
Poe Elementary School
West University Elementary School
Roberts Elementary School
St. George Place Elementary School (occupied by Briargrove Elementary School as of 2006)
Condit Elementary School
Lovett Elementary School
Horn Academy
Mark Twain Elementary School
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Harvard Elementary School
Red Elementary School
Shearn Elementary School
Kolter Elementary School

192 in Houston, 3 in Bellaire, 1 in West University Place
Traditional schools
173 in Houston, 2 in Bellaire, 1 in West University Place

Other
18 in Houston, 1 in Bellaire

  • A.D.S.D.P. (Houston)
  • Banneker-McNair Math/Science Academy (Houston)
  • Briarmeadow Charter School (Houston)
  • Dominion Academy Charter School (Houston)
  • Energized For Excellence Academy (Houston)
  • Helms Community Learning Center (Houston)
  • Maud W. Gordon Elementary School (Bellaire)
  • Kazi Shule (Houston) - Kazi Shule is an alternative school for pupils with behavioral problems. It opened as a middle school but became an elementary school in 2001 for the 2001-2002 school year.
  • Mount Hebron Academy (Houston) - Mount Hebron is an alternative school for pupils with behavioral problems.
  • Pleasant Hill Academy (Houston)
  • Pro-Vision School (Houston)
  • Sands Point Elementary School (Houston)
  • School At Post Oak (Houston) (becoming St. George Place Elementary School when the new school opens)
  • Soar Center (Houston)
  • St John's Academy (Houston)
  • Sugar Grove Elementary School (Houston)
  • Young Learners (Houston)
  • Young Scholars Academy For Excellence (Houston)

Early Childhood Centers

8 in Houston

  • Armandina Farias Early Childhood Center (Houston, opening August 2005)
  • Crockett Early Childhood Center (Houston) (The campus was formerly Brock Elementary School - Elementary students were rezoned to Crockett ES)
  • Sharon Goldstein Halpin Early Childhood Center (Houston)
  • Martin Luther King Early Childhood Center (Houston)
  • Las Américas Early Childhood Development Center (Houston)
  • Ninfa Laurenzo Early Childhood Center (Houston)
  • Gabriela Mistral Early Childhood Center (Houston, opening August 2005)
  • Wheatley Child Development (Houston)

Interagency Alternative Schools

  • CEP Southwest
  • CEP Southeast

Defunct schools

Former secondary schools

Former 7-12 schools

Former high schools

2 in Houston

Former middle schools

2 in Houston

  • Miller Junior High School (Houston)

Former primary schools

Will Rogers Elementary School (closed and demolished)

23 in Houston

Former early childhood centers

1 in Houston

  • Langston Early Childhood Center (Students transferred to Crawford ES)

Notable employees and teachers

See also

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