Turnaround for Wheatley<\/strong><\/p>\nNorth Forest and Wheatley high schools both earned their first-ever A ratings, according to the district. The top marks for Wheatley is a significant improvement for the Fifth Ward campus. In 2019 Wheatley received its seventh consecutive F rating, which set into motion the state takeover of HISD. No schools were rated in 2020 or 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022 Wheatley returned with a C rating and fell to a D in 2023, but by 2024 the campus earned a B rating.<\/p>\n
This week a by Darius Williams, who according to Wheatley’s online staff directory is a career and technical education teacher at the school, went viral after he reported a concerning lack of reading and writing skills in his senior students.<\/p>\n
“I simply don\u2019t know where the problem is,” Williams said in the video. “This is only day two [of the school year], and I have seniors who simply cannot read, and seniors who cannot write.”<\/p>\n
Miles briefly addressed the video at Thursday’s school board meeting.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ve always had this,” Miles said. “Four years ago it was worse. There were more 11th graders and 12th graders who could not read at grade level and do math at grade level. So it\u2019s serious business. It requires urgency. It requires bold transformation.”<\/p>\n
The district has set a goal for every campus to be rated A or B. At Thursday’s school board meeting, Miles said it was a “moonshot” goal, but he remained focused on the district’s gains.<\/p>\n
“The academic turnaround has been nothing short of remarkable,” Miles said. “I don\u2019t say that as a brag on the district. I say that because we need to celebrate our students who have done this great and our teachers who have done really hard work to get them there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bianca Seward\/Houston Public Media State-appointed superintendent Mike Miles presents Houston ISD\u2019s state accountability ratings for 2025-26 on Aug.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":999933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[77231,407,6262,6263,4345,6267,425,58013,50,87683,358,8973,3187,400449],"class_list":["post-999932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-accountability-ratings","tag-education","tag-education-news","tag-hisd","tag-houston","tag-houston-isd","tag-local","tag-mike-miles","tag-news","tag-tea-ratings","tag-texas","tag-texas-education-agency","tag-tx","tag-wheatley-high-school"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117093042478132247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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