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HISD has an online high school offering regular, AP, and credit-recovery courses at its virtual school. For grades 3-12 offers online schooling through Texas Connections Academy @ Houston , which is operated under contract by Connections Academy , a Maryland -based company which works with public and other schools to provide online education.
That year, the HISD school board was to vote on whether to close Dodson Elementary. Terry Grier, the HISD superintendent, argued that Dodson needs to close so another school will be located there while its permanent facility is under construction. [194] On Thursday March 13, 2014, the HISD board voted to close Dodson Elementary 5-4. [193]
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas, and the eighth-largest in the United States. [3]
On April 11, 2012 the HISD board voted to establish the school. [4] The HISD board approved the conversion of the Ryan Middle School building into a magnet school. Jyoti Malhan was selected as the founding principal of the school. [5] The goal was to have at least 100 6th grade students upon its opening.
In 2011, the HISD board approved the creation of a Mandarin Chinese-language immersion magnet school in the former Holden Elementary in the Houston Heights. [6] As of January 2012, the plans changed, and now the school was to open in Bellaire. [7] [8] In May 2012, the HISD board voted to spend $440,000 to renovate the Gordon campus.
The school at first had 1,772 students, including 340 students who, in the previous school year, were not enrolled in HISD. [12] Westside is so-named because it is located in western Houston. [13] Scott Van Beck was the first principal of Westside. In 2005 he was promoted to being the West District head. [14]
The Rice School is an HISD magnet school for a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), serving grades Kindergarten - 8th grade. The Rice School is a part of a collaboration between Houston ISD and Rice University .
Margaret Long Wisdom High School, formerly Robert E. Lee High School, is a publicly funded secondary school located in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States 77057. The Houston Independent School District, the 7th largest school district in the United States, operates Wisdom, a public admission school that enrolls grades 9 through 12 (ages 14–18).