We provide different services to help students and their families understand the Houston ISD and TEA attendance policies. Our Compliance Analysts, Outreach Workers and Parent/Community Liaisons focus on meeting individual student needs and collaborating with families, community organizations, and professional services to remove academic, social, and emotional barriers to student success.

Why focus on attendance?

District Duties: Dropout Prevention and Recovery Team

• Collaborate with schools to identify students at risk of failure due to academic, social or behavioral issues, and provide assistance to prevent students from dropping out of school​
• Provide support to assigned campuses via continuous analysis of a three-tier approach to address chronic absenteeism and dropout prevention​
• Educate campus staff on the TEA Accountability System and the critical domains necessary regarding graduation and yearly dropout rates​
• Train campus staff on the leaver process in order to identify students who are at risk of not graduating with their cohorts
• Early identification of students at-risk of dropping out of school through campus-based Graduation Support Meetings 

The education provisions of the McKinney-Vento Act, which are now incorporated within the  Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), ensure educational rights and protections for children and youth experiencing homelessness. The law directly applies to homeless unaccompanied youth who also receive some special attention within the Act. 

The mission of Houston I.S.D.'s Homeless Education Office is to assist students and families that are living in a homeless situation or that are in transition.

Complete the Student Residency Questionnaire (SRQ) / Questionario de Residencia (SRQ Espanol)

Parenting Students Department

is intended to provide an integrated program of educational and support services for students who are pregnant or who are parents.

Our goal is to improve school attendance, increase graduation rates, availability of critical resources, and enhance parenting skills.

With the adoption of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Military-Connected students are now recognized as a distinct subgroup, including students whose parents are active duty, members of the National Guard or Reserves or Veterans of the United States Military.  

 Military-Connected Student Program Goals: 

•Enrich the lives of military-connected students and the communities in which they live. 

•Provide resources, technical assistance, and support that facilitates the continuity of education and equitable learning experiences for military-connected students. 

•Promote, foster, and engage in partnerships with stakeholders that support military-connected students, families, and communities. 

•Recognize and support the military-connected student’s academic, social, and emotional needs. 

•Parents, and other supporting adults, are empowered with the knowledge to ensure military-connected students are college, workforce and life-ready. 

Mission Statement & Program Goals 

Texas Law recognizes this group as being at risk of dropping out. In 2019, children who had a parent who was incarcerated or were themselves incarcerated were added to the list of at-risk students for dropout prevention plans.

The United States has been recognized of having the highest incarcerated population in the world with 2.1 million individuals incarcerated alongside a leading incarceration rate. In addition, 54% of the incarcerated population have one or more minor children, representing 2.7 million or 1 in 28 children with an incarcerated parent. This program aims to increase awareness among staff about the prevalence of parental incarceration, identify areas of vulnerability to prevent absenteeism and dropouts, provide support by collaborating with mental health professionals to help students, and more. The mission of this program is to continuously build brighter futures for students while increasing self-knowledge and valuable leadership skills that are primed to surface during students’ transition post high school. 

Program Overview​

• Training to ensure proper identification and coding of students with incarcerated parents.​

• Increase awareness among staff about the prevalence of parental incarceration​

• Identify areas of vulnerability to prevent absenteeism and dropouts​

• Provide support by collaborating with mental health professionals to help students work through their feelings about parental incarceration​

• Establish networks of support and services for the student and family within their community.