Highland Independent School District is a UIL Class A district with approximately 220 students enrolled. Highland School is located 12 miles southwest of Sweetwater, Texas.

Highland's new football and basketball districts for 2008-09 and 2009-10 are:

Football - Highland, Blackwell, Hermleigh, Moran, Novice, Trent

Basketball - Highland, Hermleigh, Ira, Loraine, Roby, Trent

Cross-Country and Spring Events - Highland, Blackwell, Garden City, Hermleigh, Loraine, Lueders-Avoca, Midland Academy, Robert Lee, Roby, Sterling City, Trent, Water Valley, Westbrook

For more information, check the UIL website at www.uil.utexas.edu.

In our efforts to improve communications between parents and school, Highland ISD is instituting a telephone broadcast system that will enable school personnel to notify all households and parents by phone within minutes of an emergency or unplanned event that causes early dismissal, school cancellation or late start. The service may also be used from time-to-time to communicate general announcements or reminders. This service is provided by SchoolReach, which specializes in school-to-parent communications. HISD will continue to report school closings due to snow or weather on local radio and television stations and will use the SchoolReach system as an overlay to the public announcements.

When used, the service will simultaneously call all listed phone numbers in our parent contact list and will deliver a recorded message from the superintendent or another school administrator. The service will deliver the message to both live answer and answering machines. No answers and busy signals will be automatically retried twice in 15 minute intervals after the initial call.

The Nolan County-City Library is pleased to announce two new free online tutorial services: Live Homework Help and Learning Express Library.

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HISD received a Recognized rating from the Texas Education Agency's accountability rating system on August 1. This is the fourth consecutive year that HISD has earned the Recognized rating. Recognized is the second highest rating in the TEA system.

Only 214 districts of the 1158 districts statewide earned a Recognized rating for 2006-07. To achieve a Recognized rating, 75 percent of the students taking the TAKS test had to pass all TAKS subjects.

Highland ISD students performed very well on this year’s Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) tests. District-wide scores improved or stayed the same in every subject area. Passing rates for each subject are: Reading/Language Arts – 97%; Mathematics – 87%; Writing – 94%; Science – 87%; and Social Studies – 93%.

The mission of Highland ISD is to
* educate every student by combining the wisdom of yesterday, the technology of today, and the vision for tomorrow to develop within each student strong moral character, high self-esteem, and the desire to succeed,
* encourage parental and community involvement in the educational process, and
* demonstrate responsibility to the community through sound fiscal management and open communications.

Highland ISD
6625 FM 608
Roscoe, Texas 79545

(325) 766-3652 (main office)
(325) 766-2281 (superintendent fax)
(325) 766-3869 (campus fax)

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Region XIV Education Service Center in Abilene offers workshops and events for parents. For a calendar of the events, click here