{"id":259844,"date":"2026-04-21T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259844\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:29:08","slug":"these-are-the-nine-schools-set-to-join-houston-isds-new-education-system-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259844\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the nine schools set to join Houston ISD\u2019s New Education System \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dominic Anthony Walsh | Houston Public Media<\/p>\n

State-appointed superintendent Mike Miles.<\/p>\n

Houston ISD will implement its controversial instructional model, the New Education System, at nine more elementary campuses next year. The model, often called NES, was at first implemented at 85 historically low performing campuses, but has now grown to include roughly half of the district’s schools.<\/p>\n

In early April, HISD press officials said principals had come forward expressing interest<\/a> in adding NES to their campuses. Information provided to Houston Public Media by the district on Monday showed that a total of 12 campus principals expressed interest, and nine schools were ultimately selected. <\/p>\n

“We are pleased that the principal-led, voluntary opt-in process drew strong interest from school leaders across the district,” the HISD press office wrote in a statement. “Throughout the process, principals engaged with their staff and families and gathered input. Other selection factors included: student academic needs, instructional performance, and leadership recommendation. In the end, principal demand exceeded the available spots for the 2026-27 school year.”<\/p>\n

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All of the schools approved for the NES expansion serve majority Black or Latino student populations and have a C or D rating from the Texas Education Agency (TEA). An average of 95% of students in these elementary schools are from low-income families. <\/p>\n

Below are the selected schools: <\/p>\n

Barrick ES
\nBastian ES
\nBenbrook ES
\nBurnet ES
\nCarrillo ES
\nEd White ES
\nFoster ES
\nGarcia ES
\nLaw ES<\/p>\n

Two other elementary schools, Mading and Pleasantville, will also transition to NES campuses next year as part of a consolidation. Each will absorb students from Alcott Elementary and Port Houston Elementary, which both are current NES schools that are set to close<\/a> at the end of this school year as part of a broader round of campus closures and consolidations.<\/p>\n

Three schools that wanted the NES model \u2014 Chavez High School, Love Elementary and Mark White Elementary \u2014 were not selected.<\/p>\n

HISD did not respond to questions from Houston Public Media about why all 12 campuses could not be accommodated or if funding was a reason for limiting the number of schools admitted.<\/p>\n

It’s not clear how costly it is to transition a school into the NES model. One specific budget factor is a teacher salary raise. Teachers at NES campuses can make nearly $10,000 more than teachers at non-NES campuses.<\/p>\n

While many NES schools have improved their performance on standardized tests, the model has been met with criticism from parents, teachers and the general public because it is associated with high teacher turnover rates and more pronounced enrollment declines<\/a> compared to the rest of the district. <\/p>\n

The model requires teachers to use a district-approved curriculum that features daily timed quizzes \u2013 one in each core class: math, sciences, social studies and English-language arts. It places an emphasis on test-based instruction and results in longer school days than campuses not under the NES umbrella.<\/p>\n

While HISD again expands a reform model tailored for low-performing campuses, state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles recently introduced a new framework for high-performing schools<\/a> to regain more control over their campuses starting next year. He even paved a path for schools to exit the NES network, but doubted that many would choose to leave. <\/p>\n

“The salaries are higher. They get teaching apprentices. They get learning coaches,” Miles said at last week’s school board meeting. “We\u2019ll see. I mean, maybe I\u2019m wrong, but I suspect I won\u2019t.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominic Anthony Walsh | Houston Public Media State-appointed superintendent Mike Miles. Houston ISD will implement its controversial instructional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[163,1182,4045,56,58,1686,57,7334,66,2824,37300,22978,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-259844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-education-news","10":"tag-hisd","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-headlines","13":"tag-houston-isd","14":"tag-houston-news","15":"tag-houston-schools","16":"tag-local","17":"tag-mike-miles","18":"tag-nes","19":"tag-new-education-system","20":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}