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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.
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 ]
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.
In September 1991, Milby was one of 32 HISD schools that had capped enrollments; in other words, the school was filled to capacity and excess students had to attend other schools. [10] On November 14, 1991, 18-year-old Francisco Contreras received four gunshot wounds in his feet and leg outside of the cafeteria at Milby.
Lamar High School is a comprehensive public secondary school located in Houston, Texas, United States.It is a part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD). Lamar High School, was established in 1936 in memory of Mirabeau B. Lamar (1798–1859), a leader in the Texas Revolution and the second President of the Republic of Texas.
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).
Carlos Setien's Untitled on Strake campus. Strake Jesuit College Preparatory (properly referred to as Strake Jesuit or Jesuit but often informally called Strake) is a Jesuit, college-preparatory school for boys, grades 9–12, in the Chinatown area and in the Greater Sharpstown district of Houston, Texas, United States. [5]
Sterling High School in 2008. Ross S. Sterling High School opened as a junior/senior high school (grades 7–12) in the fall of 1965. [citation needed]This unique, three-building campus featured designed-in air-conditioning which was a new, yet essential, feature for HISD facilities.