High Island Independent School District is a public school district based in unincorporated Galveston County, Texas, United States.
HIISD serves the communities of Caplen, High Island, and Gilchrist on the Bolivar Peninsula.
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Circa 2003 some Bolivar Peninsula residents in the Galveston Independent School District (GISD) portion who were dissatisfied with the Crenshaw School, the then-two-campus GISD K-8 school on the peninsula, sent their children to High Island schools. [1] Crenshaw was rebuilt as a single campus in 2005. [2]
The school district lost approximately 15% of its students in 2008 due to homes and residences destroyed by Hurricane Ike In the fall of 2009, the district reported an enrollment of 186 students. [3]
In 2009, the school district was rated " academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency. [4]
High Island High School plays six-man football.
High Island Independent School District is a public school district based in unincorporated Galveston County, Texas, United States.
HIISD serves the communities of Caplen, High Island, and Gilchrist on the Bolivar Peninsula.
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Circa 2003 some Bolivar Peninsula residents in the Galveston Independent School District (GISD) portion who were dissatisfied with the Crenshaw School, the then-two-campus GISD K-8 school on the peninsula, sent their children to High Island schools. [1] Crenshaw was rebuilt as a single campus in 2005. [2]
The school district lost approximately 15% of its students in 2008 due to homes and residences destroyed by Hurricane Ike In the fall of 2009, the district reported an enrollment of 186 students. [3]
In 2009, the school district was rated " academically acceptable" by the Texas Education Agency. [4]
High Island High School plays six-man football.