• Regular Features

    • Fully certified and highly qualified teachers/staff
    • Adherence to all state of Texas curriculum requirements
    • Data-driven school with focus on literacy programs
    • Year-long instruction in music, art, and PE
    • Active Parent Teacher Association (PTA) participation
    • Comprehensive guidance counseling program
    • Student Council
    • Extracurricular clubs
    • Family Academic Information Night
    • Pep rallies
    • Family Multi-Cultural Night and Parent Enrichment Classes

     

    Special Features

    • Engineers in the Classroom program in partnership with Lockheed Martin, offering students the opportunity to work with and learn hands-on from engineers and scientists from a national leading corporation dedicated to aerospace, defense, information technology, and space innovation
    • Dedicated curriculum Engineering in Education produced by the National Center for Technology Literacy in conjunction with the Museum of Science-Boston.
    • Expanded school day to allow for lab work, experiments, and dedicated STEM coursework with GPISD School Board approval
    • Expanded extracurricular club program focused on STEM principles, including clubs such as Robotics Club, Engineering Club, Space Club, in addition to sports and other campus club offerings
    • Outdoor classroom and Learning Lab with 2 high school-sized science labs
    • Expanded media center and library
    • Technology expansion as a bring-your-own-device school that also offers student netbooks and tablets to accommodate enhanced study
    • Emphasis on social media (i.e. Twitter, Google+, Facebook, podcasting), including a dedicated Eduvision Channel to provide student-produced presentations, parent information
    • A Parent Involvement Center that serves as a portal for STEM-focused enrichment lessons and experiments where students and parents can work on together at home, receive academic support, and increased computer training for Milam parents
    • Breakfast-in-the-classroom program, offering a nutritious breakfast to all students every morning
    • Standardized dress with GPISD School Board approval