The mission of Project GRAD is to ensure a quality public education for all students in economically disadvantaged communities so that high school and college graduation rates increase.

Project GRAD Houston
1510 Jensen Dr.
Houston, TX 77020
832-325-0325 (main)

Mailing address:
Project GRAD Houston
PO Box 15568
Houston TX 77220-5568

Project GRAD (GRAD) is a non-profit education reform model serving 132,000 economically disadvantaged youth in 211 schools across the nation. Over 90% of GRAD students are low-income and 91% are minority. GRAD has a proven track record nationwide in increasing high school graduation and college attendance rates for low-income students. The national Project GRAD model has grown from a scholarship program which began in partnership with Houston Independent School District in 1989.

Today, Project GRAD Houston is at work in five feeder patterns of Houston ISD, serving 66 schools and over 45,000 children — 22.98% of the school district's total school population and approximately 24% of its total at-risk population.

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News

Dr. Laurie Ballering Completes Prestigious Academy Program

Dr. Laurie Ballering, Senior Director, Project GRAD Houston has graduated from the NSDC Academy for Staff Developers, a prestigious learning experience aimed at improving the quality of teaching and learning in all schools. Read more...

21 HISD Teachers to Receive Individual $1,000 Innovative Teacher Grants Through Project GRAD Houston, HISD, and GEAR UP Partnership

Twenty-one teachers from six area Houston Independent School District (HISD) high schools will receive individual $1,000 grants for their innovative strategies to help students succeed in more rigorous studies. “We are pleased that Project GRAD is able to help fuel great ideas for teaching, but we are especially honored when a recipient is a former GRAD scholar who has come back to her high school as a mathematics teacher,” said Project GRAD Houston Executive Director Ann Stiles. Read more...

Project GRAD Houston Receives ARRA Grant to Fund Parent Empowerment Program

Project GRAD Houston has been awarded an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grant from the Gulf Coast Community Services Association (GCCSA) to implement a “Parent Empowerment Program (PEP) – Putting ‘PEP’ in Parents’ Steps Forward!” In addition to providing college access programs and $4,000 college scholarships to high school students at Davis, Reagan, Sam Houston, Wheatley and Yates High Schools in the Houston Independent School District (HISD), GRAD recognizes the value of educating parents as critical to breaking the cycle of poverty and transforming lives. Read more...

Mentoring gives high school students a hand

Outside of passing AP Chemistry and finding a date to prom, applying to college can be one of the most daunting tasks of a high school student's career. To address this issue, The Mentorship Project, a club formed recently at Rice, held a college workshop in Dell Butcher Hall last Wednesday and Thursday for 125 Houston-area high school juniors and seniors seeking assistance with the college application process, Chair Christina Rojas said. Rojas, a Brown College sophomore, said the workshops were done in collaboration with Project GRAD, a Houston non-profit organization that aims to increase high school graduation and college attendance rates. Read more...

HISD/Project GRAD Houston Partnership Working to Improve Dropout Rates

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Project GRAD Houston College Scholarships Award Ceremony

For the 18th consecutive year, Project GRAD Houston awarded college scholarships to seniors from the Houston Independent School District (HISD).
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Project GRAD Houston provides college scholarships to graduating seniors

For almost two full decades, Project GRAD Houston has been providing college scholarships to graduating seniors from selected HISD high schools. But many of the students who participate in that program take away more than just a high-school diploma and a $4,000 check to offset the cost of tuition, textbooks, and the other expenses that accompany the quest for higher education. Read more...