Highlands Junior School

Our Mission

The mission of Highlands Junior School is to serve the diverse and distinguishable needs of this age group while
encouraging and leading them to develop intellectually, emotionally, and socially.

Goals

The Highlands Junior School Instructional Leadership Team will lead the campus to focus on the following goals:

	Students will be lead to develop responsible learning and behavioral patterns.
	The network among the instructional staff, parents, students, site administrators, district level administrators, and the community will be strengthened to continue to improve the quality of student learning.
	A minimum of eighty percent of the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students will pass all classes while the instructional staff maintains the high academic standards and expectations of GCCISD.

Special programs

	Gifted and Talented Education Program (GATE) for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students who qualify.
	Pre-Advanced Placement courses for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students who qualify.
	Special Education classes in math and language arts for qualified students.
	Dyslexia specialist for qualified students
	Community-In-Schools
	Life Skills classes for all qualified students
	Spanish credit by exam for interested students
	Duke Talent Search for 7th graders
	Read 180
	Success Maker Math
	Algebra I for 8th grade students who qualify

Students at HJS can participate in a number of exciting activities and organizations, which include:

	Girls' and boys' athletic programs for 7th and 8th graders
	History Fair
	Science Fair
	UIL academic competition
	Christian Student Union
	Student Council
	National Junior Honor Society
	Art
	Band
	Orchestra
	Theatre Arts

Students' achievements are recognized through honor roll and perfect attendance parties every six weeks
and numerous special awards presented throughout the school year.

Highlands Junior School is organized around effective middle school practices as defined by the Texas Education Agency, Texas Association of Secondary
School Principals, and National Middle School Association.

Facts about our school...

Highlands Junior School has served Highlands, McNair, and the surrounding area since 1958. We are teaching the children of residents who were once HJS students themselves!

Our 110,734 square foot building is situated on 55.2 acres of land, and renovations were completed in 1968, 1992,
1995, and 1997. In July 2006, construction began on a new Highlands Junior School. This 186,000 square foot facility will be completed by April 2008.

According to our November 2007 membership report, 690 students were enrolled for classes, with 47 white, 34 Hispanic,
17 African-American, and 1% Other.

We are proud to announce that Highlands Junior School has been a "Recognized" campus for the past three years.

A message from our principal...

WELCOME! Highlands Junior is ready to prepare you for your future. You are the person who chooses your own personal
future. Have you given this any thought? Now is the time. The academic classes will prepare you specifically for high
school; however, you will have many opportunities to explore the unlimited number of options waiting for you upon graduation
from high school. Plan to be an excellent student. You know what it takes. Teachers have told you many times how to be a
successful student. Practice every day being the very best student you can be. With regular practice, you will become an
excellent student and the doors to your future will open wide to welcome you. We are here to help you.

Cordially,

Steve Herring
Principal

Contact Information

Highlands Junior School
1212 East Wallisville Rd.
Highlands, Texas 77562
Telephone: (281) 420-4695

Send mail to regina.rogers@gccisd.net with questions or comments about this web site.
Last modified: 11/09/07