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Old 06-23-2016, 02:05 PM
 
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OP, you can add this one to your list of capped.

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Parker, condition, Lovett, poe, askew, Herod, school at St.George, and Twain are all good options. Briarmeadow Charter school has a good reputation.

If you live west, Bush and Daily are good options.
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Old 06-23-2016, 10:35 PM
 
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Parker, condition, Lovett, poe, askew, Herod, school at St.George, and Twain are all good options. Briarmeadow Charter school has a good reputation.

If you live west, Bush and Daily are good options.
Poe isn't turning away, but if you're registering an in-zone kindergartner register as early as possible. They did stop registering zoned incoming kindergartners during the summer last year. School board has toyed with sending Roberts, Twain, West U overflow to the Rice School, but it is full.

Honestly, I would not move into HISD right now. The current school board is openly hostile to middle class kids. Maybe they're right and "what's good for the goose is good for the gander," but at the end of the day, I've got kids I have to get educated. If you want to see what I mean, google for HISD Board Meeting Video and watch some of the recent board meetings.

I believe the board voted to evaluate all attendance boundaries recently too--and zones will likely change. It's just a really unstable educational system right now.
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Old 06-23-2016, 10:41 PM
 
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Wharton's dual language program (spanish-english) is highly desirable. It has a very long wait list for non zoned students.
Yes, I agree with this. We would have loved to have gone with a Spanish language dual magnet when we were looking a few years ago but couldn't get in. I think we listed three of them.
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Old 06-23-2016, 11:25 PM
 
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Anderson is dual language

Budgeting changes had to happen. The discrepancy between conditions of schools like bellaire HS and many of the lower schools listed here to other HISD schools are like the difference between a first and third world country. HISD got away with that for too long

Maybe if more schools got a face lift and some extra funds there'd be less capping in what's got to be less than 10% of the schools in the district
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Old 06-24-2016, 06:26 PM
 
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Budgeting changes had to happen. The discrepancy between conditions of schools like bellaire HS and many of the lower schools listed here to other HISD schools are like the difference between a first and third world country. HISD got away with that for too long

Maybe if more schools got a face lift and some extra funds there'd be less capping in what's got to be less than 10% of the schools in the district
I agree with the budgeting changes. I'm pessimistic about HISD in general. I just don't see smart decisions being made at the state level or the school board level. No superintendent. People throwing around money they don't even have. Lots of agenda pushing...and I'm not even saying its bad agenda pushing. It just gets in the way of good decision making. I just don't think there's much of anyone to trust right now when it comes to schools. The board meeting vids are really good for newcomers to watch. Go back to 2014 and look for 4 hour meetings. You can get a really good sense of the city's challenges through them.

Personally, if I had the money I'd move to Spring Branch.
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Old 06-24-2016, 07:11 PM
 
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Houston, WTH? How are you expecting to grow and attract educated newcomers if the good schools are this badly overcrowded?
You wrongly presume anyone at HISD gives a F about attracting "educated newcomers."

Take yourself down a notch and get in the back of the line. That's "Houston."
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Old 06-25-2016, 08:23 PM
 
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Remember some people don't have a lot of time. It may be best to:

* A. Directly link to each and every board member video that's relevant and
* B. give a time frame (say 5:12-7:12 or so) in which one should pay attention to the meeting

This makes our jobs easier: we know exactly where the "gold" is.

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Honestly, I would not move into HISD right now. The current school board is openly hostile to middle class kids. Maybe they're right and "what's good for the goose is good for the gander," but at the end of the day, I've got kids I have to get educated. If you want to see what I mean, google for HISD Board Meeting Video and watch some of the recent board meetings.

I believe the board voted to evaluate all attendance boundaries recently too--and zones will likely change. It's just a really unstable educational system right now.
BTW if the schools in the "nice" parts of HISD are getting overcrowded - that's a good thing. You may want to ask all the public schools in North Dallas, home of 99% of Dallas's private schools, which are unable to attract just about every rich North Dallasite.
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Old 06-25-2016, 11:01 PM
 
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Somebody just messaged me bringing up Highland Park High School in the Dallas area, saying my point about North Dallas schools isn't true because of that.

Uhm, Highland Park ISD is an exception, a very gerrymandered exception. When you look at DISD my point is very, very true.
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Old 06-26-2016, 09:54 AM
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Somebody just messaged me bringing up Highland Park High School in the Dallas area, saying my point about North Dallas schools isn't true because of that.

Uhm, Highland Park ISD is an exception, a very gerrymandered exception. When you look at DISD my point is very, very true.
Highland Park is a separate school district.
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Old 06-26-2016, 02:57 PM
 
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Highland Park is a separate school district.
Yes. It would be like if River Oaks had its own carefully cut-off school district from HISD. The fact that these wealthy areas are in HISD increases the district's small % of white students Dallas Vs. Houston: How The Two Biggest School Districts In Texas Match Up – Houston Public Media

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And Dallas has about 160,000. Its student body is poorer, more Latino and a little less white. That’s partly because some of the richest, whitest neighborhoods are in a separate district, Highland Park, while in Houston, the kids from the tony neighborhood of River Oaks are zoned to city schools.
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