Dr. Abraham P. Cano Freshman Academy was selected from over 1,000 schools worldwide that will participate in the new Pre-Advanced Placement Program this fall. The new program offers instructional resources...
With STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) occupations increasingly taking center stage in the job market of tomorrow, Harlingen CISD is ensuring its students have access to quality STEM learning...
Junior Matthew Garcia is determined to make a difference in his community. He was recently offered a prestigious opportunity to do just that as he prepares for his last year...
by: Adriana Dominguez Soon, select students at Harlingen CISD may have the opportunity to gain a fresh outlook through a unique education guided by themes of global impact. The district...
Harlingen High School South senior Megan Adair received the FFA Lonestar State Degree - the highest degree of membership the state FFA Association can grant - at the 2017 FFA...
[caption id="attachment_21102" align="alignleft" width="400"] "I will be attending the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and I’m majoring in psychology. I want to become an experimental psychologist. I’d like to...
[caption id="attachment_21074" align="alignleft" width="400"] "I plan to attend Dartmouth College, and I’m going to major in Psychology. I hope to become a psychiatrist because I want to help people. I...
[caption id="attachment_21032" align="alignleft" width="400"] "My top three choices are Rice University, St. Edwards University, and Our Lady of the Lake. I will be majoring in political science. I am the...
Written by Caitlin Bruseth Harlingen High School South valedictorian Erika Hernandez was named the state champion in the UIL Barbara Jordan Essay Contest. Her paper, which profiled retiring HCISD Board...
[caption id="attachment_20967" align="alignnone" width="980"] Left to right: John Duncan, Natalie Perez, James Gracia, Lucero Sauceda, Chris Smith, Lauren Ponce, and Josh Delgado Not pictured: Christian Villarreal and Ramiro Gonzalez[/caption] Harlingen...
Seven Harlingen High School South Latin Team members advanced to the National Junior Classical League competition after competing at the state contest last week. The national contest will be held...
Fifteen Harlingen High School South Latin students have advanced by competing with schools in Area F, to this year's TSJCL State Competition that will take place in Garland Texas, April...
Harlingen High School South's One-Act Play "Sideman" advanced to the Region IV contest to be held April 17 in San Antonio, Texas. The cast and crew competed March 31 at...
Harlingen School of Health Professions students will be advancing to the HOSA Future Health Professionals State Conference as a result of a successful Area 7 competition in February. The state...
Harlingen High School South and the Harlingen High School speech teams placed 1st and 2nd respectively overall at the UIL 32-6A Academic District Meet. Students that placed 1st-3rd will be...
Seventeen Harlingen High School South students competed at the Texas FBLA State Leadership Conference held in Dallas, TX on March 8-10. The event hosted over 1,000 of Texas' best...
The cast and crew from Harlingen High School and Harlingen High School South have advanced from zone and district One Act Play competitions. Both schools will compete at the Bi-district...
The Harlingen High School Business Professionals of America Club competed with participants from all across Texas at the State Leadership Conference held in Corpus Christi on March 3. Two HHS...
This past weekend Harlingen High School South competed at the Texas Forensic Association State Tournament, which is the second largest academic competition in the nation consisting of nearly 1,500 students...
Coakley Middle School's Ethan "Timmy" Mowers is 9 years old, has skipped two grades, is taking ninth-grade Algebra I, and has just advanced to the MathCounts state competition. The exceptionally...
The Harlingen High School South Engineering Club was recently awarded a $5,000 grant for their ingenuity in the Nationwide Ford STEAM High School Community Challenge. The team took on the...
High-school speech and debate teams participated in the Harvard Invitational Speech and Debate Tournament held Feb. 16-20. Several students advanced in their respective areas. Harlingen High School and Harlingen High School South...
Junior Cara Cash was crowned as the second-ever Miss Harlingen High School. The Miss HHS Scholarship Pageant was held at the HCISD Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Jan.13. The pageant...
Creating the expectation of success, that is the idea behind Yes! Our Kids Can, a new program coming soon to Austin Elementary. YOKC teaches students at a young age that...
Early College High School's Owlbots competed in the BELL Metro League Championship held in Mission on Jan. 27. The team accumulated several awards including 1st place Think Award, 1st place Design Award, and...
[caption id="attachment_20438" align="alignnone" width="980"] (L-R) Back row: Ariana Nelson, Nicholas Tapia, Rolando Salazar; Front row: Ashley Barrera, Mia Medrano, Sarah Ramos, Nicholas Tapia[/caption] For the first time in a decade,...
Dishman Elementary is among 25 Texas public schools to be nominated for the national 2018 Blue Ribbon Schools recognition. "We are super excited regarding Dishman's 2018 National Blue Ribbon Nomination,"...
The Harlingen High School South Speech, Drama, and Debate Team competed at the Columbia University Invitational National Speech Tournament. Advancing to the final round of Duo Interpretation were three South...
[caption id="attachment_20387" align="alignnone" width="980"] High-School Champions - Early College High School[/caption] [caption id="attachment_20388" align="alignnone" width="980"] Middle-School Champions - Memorial Middle School[/caption] [caption id="attachment_20390" align="alignnone" width="980"] Elementary Champions - Treasure Hills...
It is after the end of the school day, yet the sounds of enthusiastic students still echo throughout the halls. About 40 students crowd into a computer lab. This is...
Vela Middle School's speech and debate team competed at the Sharyland High School TFA tournament held Jan. 6. With thirteen competitors in their ranks, the group went up against 16...
Harlingen High School South Speech and Debate team competed at the McAllen High School Speech and Debate tournament held Dec. 16. The team brought home another Sweepstakes trophy and also picked up several...
HCISD UIL speech students competed at the Audie Murphy Middle School UIL Tournament in Alamo this past Saturday against 24 schools from across the valley. HCISD dominated the speech competition....
[caption id="attachment_20042" align="alignnone" width="960"] Harlingen High School South[/caption] [caption id="attachment_20041" align="alignnone" width="640"] Harlingen High School[/caption] Harlingen High School South and Harlingen High School speech teams competed at the University of...
More than 850 HCISD students qualified for the Duke Talent Identification Program’s 4th–6th Grade Talent Search. Fourth, fifth, and sixth-graders qualify for the program by scoring in the 95th percentile...
Christopher Smith is the recipient of the National Speech & Debate Association’s Academic All American award. This distinguished award recognizes students who have completed at least five semesters of high...
On November 3, Harlingen High School and Harlingen High School South competed with schools representing ESC Region I. Three competitors from Harlingen qualified for the UIL State Congress Meet to be held...
After years of preparation and study, the legacy class of Harlingen School of Health Professions is heading out into the community to show the world what they’re made of through...
[caption id="attachment_19523" align="alignnone" width="980"] Pictured: Vladislava Milova and her fourth-grade Dual Language teacher Yesenia Cortez.[/caption] Vladislava Milova, a fourth-grade student at Wilson Elementary, pronounces the word for “dog” in three...
[caption id="attachment_19456" align="alignnone" width="980"] Harlingen South SDD Team wins 1st Place Sweepstakes[/caption] [caption id="attachment_19457" align="alignnone" width="980"] HHS SDD Team wins 3rd Place Sweepstakes[/caption] Harlingen High School and Harlingen High School...
Students in the App Creators class at Vernon Middle School take part in a lively discussion on how to make their code run smoothly before heading to the lab to...
[caption id="attachment_19436" align="alignnone" width="980"] UTRGV Photo by David Pike[/caption] For the second consecutive year, Harlingen High School earned top honors at the U.S. Navy SeaPerch Challenge, held Friday, Oct. 6,...
Two seniors from Harlingen High School South have been named Commended Students in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program. Erika Hernandez and Christian Ingram are among 34,000 high-school seniors to...
The Harlingen High School South Speech/Drama/Debate Team had a fantastic performance at the Harlingen High School Tournament on Saturday, September 30. The team swept the competition with a 1st place...
Jacob Fraga, a senior at Harlingen High School South, is one of 11 Latino honorees to be awarded the John S. Martínez Leadership Scholarship by the National Hispanic Caucus of...
Harlingen High School South Speech Team did an outstanding job at their first tournament of the year with sweepstakes win. The contest was held at Tuloso Midway High School in...
[caption id="attachment_19358" align="alignnone" width="980"] Pictured with Board of Trustees: Jackson Hughes (Gutierrez MS) and Jacob Fox (Coakley MS); Pictured individually: Jorge Gonzales (Vela MS)[/caption] During their regular meeting held Sept....
Across all subjects, all 17 elementary campuses at Harlingen CISD surpassed the state average in the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR). “HCISD’s elementary schools have made significant...
Harlingen High School South principal Fernando Reyes attended an institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Principals’ Center this summer as part of the 2017 Raise Your Hand Texas-Harvard...
Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District continues to make progress in student achievement. The Texas Education Agency (TEA) accountability ratings released Tuesday, August 15, show that HCISD schools earned 103 distinction...
