Education

Pre-K Choice and School Readiness in HISD (Part 4)

This brief serves as the fourth, and final, study in a series examining pre-K access for students in HISD.

Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2022 Results

The 41st Kinder Houston Area Survey shares Houstonians’ views on the economy, crime, the pandemic and other issues related to the city’s demographic transformations.

Long-term English Learners (LTELs): What factors are associated with the likelihood of an English learner becoming a long-term English learner? (Part 3)

This research brief examines student, campus, and neighborhood characteristics that can be considered risk or protective factors for the likelihood of an English learner (EL) becoming an LTEL (long-term English learner).

Student Mobility in Texas and the Houston Area

This report is the culmination of a multi-year study on student mobility undertaken by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research's Houston Education Research Consortium in collaboration with 10 public school districts in the Houston area.

The Relationship Between School-Year Mobility and School Performance in the Houston Area

A study of 10 public school districts in the Houston area found that the higher the school-year mobility rate at a school, the lower its accountability performance.

Consistency in Campus Student Mobility Predicting Campus Mobility at Houston Area Public Schools

This brief relays findings on how campuses’ student body characteristics, neighborhood features, campus attributes, and nearby alternative schooling options influence campus mobility rates.

Student Mobility During School Year Detrimental for Houston Area Students’ Achievement and Attainment

Tens of thousands of students in the Houston area switched schools during the school year annually. This study examined what this mobility meant for students’ performance on state accountability tests, high school grade retention, high school dropout, and high school graduation.

School Suspension and Juvenile Justice Contact in the Houston Independent School District

This two-part study seeks to understand the relationship between school suspensions and juvenile justice contact in the Houston Independent School District (HISD).

Student Mobility Leaving Districts in the Houston Area: Where do students go? And do they return?

This study highlights the unique patterns of student mobility and the returner phenomenon in 10 Houston-area school districts.

Flows of Student Mobility in the Houston Region

In this series of research briefs, HERC examines the between district mobility of students from the perspective of 10 public school districts in the Houston area.

Student Mobility Networks in the Greater Houston Area

This brief explores the informal networks of elementary school student mobility in the Greater Houston area across 27 independent school districts (ISDs).

Social and Emotional Skills of Students in the Houston Independent School District (Brief 1)

Two briefs analyze the social and emotional skills of a representative group of 10 and 15-year-old students in HISD.

Predictors of School Year Student Mobility in the Houston Region

This study identified student characteristics associated with school year mobility for more than 260,000 students in grades 4 through 8 who began the 2016-17 school year at a school in one of ten Houston area school districts.

Changing Schools: Differences in School Year Student Mobility by Subgroup (Part 4)

This study used seven years of data from the state of Texas (2010-11 through 2016-17) to illustrate how statewide patterns of school year student mobility differed by subgroup. Patterns of student mobility differed by race, socioeconomic status, and English learner status.

COVID-19 U.S. School District Action Plans: How were school districts prepared in the spring of 2020?

HERC collected 45 school district action plans addressing continuity of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic from school districts in 15 states that were publicly available between March and May 2020.