{"id":419183,"date":"2026-08-28T11:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419183\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:54:09","slug":"hisd-enrollment-continues-to-decline-as-more-options-become-available-newsradio-740-ktrh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419183\/","title":{"rendered":"HISD Enrollment Continues To Decline As More Options Become Available | NewsRadio 740 KTRH"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a recent report from the Houston Chronicle, more than 100 Houston Independent School District schools are operating at under 60% capacity. More than 60 schools were under 50 percent capacity last year, prompting multiple closures.<\/p>\n

According to the Chronicle\u2019s report<\/a>, those declines in enrollment have been driven by a number of factors, including the crackdowns on illegal immigration, slowing birth rates, and even the school voucher program, which is in its first operational year after being passed through the legislature last year.<\/p>\n

Corey DeAngelis<\/a>, a major supporter of the program and Heritage Foundation research fellow, says this is a sign that it\u2019s working, and more parents are opting for alternatives to traditional public education. He said: \u201cThis is a feature, not a bug. When schools don\u2019t have students in them, they should close, and that money should be reallocated to schools that are doing a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeAngelis believes that the competition that\u2019s now being created by the rise of private and even public charter schools is going to be a major force for good, driving HISD and other districts to make improvements and cut waste. \u201cIt should be a rising tide that lifts all boats. But it\u2019s up to the leaders of the school system to read the tea leaves, and shape up or shut down,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

He believes this could even lead to lower property taxes, because as poor-performing schools are emptied and then closed, the district won\u2019t need as big of a budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a recent report from the Houston Chronicle, more than 100 Houston Independent School District schools are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-419183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419183","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=419183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}