Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles gained more than a little breathing room Wednesday with the return of HISD state testing scores that showed gains – some impressive – among high school students in the district who took the STAAR.
“So now let’s get to the results. We did great. It’s one of the best academic years that the district has had. NES schools higher than the district as a whole, almost twice as high, and the elementary and middle is even better. Even with the most recent gains, HISD still hasn’t matched the scores of the pre-pandemic years in Algebra I and U. S. History.
The test scores – as opposed to the growth -- were better in non-NES schools where all the numbers were higher to start with. NES schools were selected because Miles and his administration deemed them most in need of extra academic assistance through the year. In the NES system, which this year had a special focus on Reading and Math, classes in those two subjects begin with 45 minutes of instruction, then a 10-minute daily quiz.