Investigating Equity in Art Course Taking Across Houston ISD High Schools
This brief investigates the extent to which national trends in inequitable arts learning opportunity, at least in terms of secondary school course offerings and enrollment, occur in the Houston Independent School District (HISD).
This brief examines the summer school program in Houston ISD and identifies schools and/or students that may need additional resources during summer school.
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Staying in the Neighborhood: Examining Distance to Zoned Schools and Access to Transportation
This brief examines how students' living distance from their zoned school and access to district-provided school transportation impact enrollment decisions.
Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2023 Results
The 42nd Kinder Houston Area Survey provides a glimpse into how Houstonians are thinking about the economy, affordable housing, inequality, and other critical challenges and issues facing their communities.
Social and Emotional Skills of Students in the Houston Independent School District (Briefs 2-5)
This series of briefs looks at how social and emotional skills are related to academic outcomes, absenteeism, and exclusionary discipline; the context of SSES skills; and the commonalities and differences between students’ self-ratings and teachers’ ratings of students’ SE skills.
This brief examines the middle and high school outcomes of long-term English speakers in the Houston region, with a specific focus on how the timing of reclassification was associated with academic achievement and school engagement.
Equity in CTE Program Availability and Access
This study examined the availability and access to Career and Technical Education programs in HISD.
HISD Student Needs Survey: Fall 2021
HISD's 2021 student needs survey measured student needs across five categories: health, mental health, basic needs, home learning environment, and enrichment activities.
This report proposes alternative definitions for student continuous enrollment. It also looks at the relationship between continuous enrollment and performance.
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.
The 2022 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston
The third annual State of Housing report looks at the pandemic's impact on the local housing market. The report also sets new housing baselines on mortgage loan data, homelessness and other housing indicators.
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.
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