{"id":432233,"date":"2026-09-10T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432233\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:22:10","slug":"reliant-park-moves-graduations-to-reliant-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432233\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliant Park moves graduations to Reliant Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reliant Park<\/a> is moving graduation ceremonies that once took place at Reliant Stadium into Reliant Arena, a change officials say will keep the stadium available for other major events.<\/p>\n

Reliant Park is not ending its graduation program, officials told the Houston Chronicle. Instead, schools that previously held commencement ceremonies at Reliant Stadium will move to Reliant Arena, allowing the larger stadium to remain available for other events during a busy booking period.<\/p>\n

The new policy applies to all school districts that previously held graduations at Reliant Stadium, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Utilizing Reliant Arena for graduation ceremonies allows Reliant Park to continue hosting these important community celebrations while keeping Reliant Stadium available for other large-scale events during a peak booking period,” a spokesperson with the organization said. “Our commitment to supporting students, families, educators, and school districts remains unchanged.”<\/p>\n

Most Houston ISD schools host graduation ceremonies at their own facilities or the University of Houston, but many have also held ceremonies at Reliant.<\/a> High schools in several districts, including Houston, Humble, Pasadena and Pearland ISDs, held commencement ceremonies at the stadium in 2025.<\/p>\n

FIFA took control of the stadium on May 15 ahead of the 2026 World Cup, forcing some schools that traditionally held ceremonies there to move them to other venues.<\/p>\n

Houston ISD and Humble ISD did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Reliant Park hosts a wide range of events, including the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, concerts, sporting events, conventions, trade shows and festivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reliant Park is moving graduation ceremonies that once took place at Reliant Stadium into Reliant Arena, a change…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-432233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432233","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=432233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}