Proof Point Region Spotlight:
Houston and Coastal Bend
Supporting Intermediary: Texas Urban Council
4 School Systems
~307,000 Total Students
Postsecondary Partners: Lone Star College, Houston Community College, Del Mar College
Aldine ISD (Independent School District)
Alief ISD
Corpus Christi ISD
Houston ISD
Strong Practice in Houston and Coastal Bend
New partnerships, redesigned advising models, and real-time data are expanding college and career access across four large urban districts.
High-Quality Advising
Implementation Focus
Districts are embedding advising into the school day and redesigning staffing to reach more students despite tightening budgets
Aldine ISD is expanding OneGoal to roughly 6,000 students through its advisory period and tying teacher stipends to measurable student outcomes
Alief ISD continues implementing OneGoal alongside MasteryPrep and CollegeSpring
Corpus Christi ISD redesigned pathway guides with prerequisites, co-requisites, and campus-level seat counts, and Del Mar College advisors are visiting high schools to support FAFSA, applications, and TSI testing
Houston ISD is developing an in-house seminar course for structured postsecondary advising and using Bottom Line to support students in the top 6–25% of their class
What’s Next
Scaling structured advising to every student during the school day as districts work around counselor caseload constraints
Real Impact
Aldine ISD students on track to receive structured advising through their advisory period alone
Dual Credit and Advanced Coursework
Implementation Focus
- Districts are deepening early college access through new partnerships and expanded grade-level eligibility
- Alief ISD is launching Fast Forward 9 so 9th graders can earn up to nine dual credit hours in their first year, and drew 300 interested students to a Houston Community College pre-engineering recruitment event
- Aldine ISD is partnering with Lone Star College on accelerated course options and piloting a 9-9 model that uses an asynchronous EDUC 1300 course to reduce the need for dual-credit-certified classroom teachers
- Corpus Christi ISD completed dual credit registration packets ahead of schedule and is building a 15-hour pathway communication strategy with Del Mar College
What’s Next
Scaling access to 15+ transferable credits before graduation while working through the staffing and scheduling constraints of expanding dual credit sections
Real Impact
new pathways launching across districts, including pre-engineering with Houston Community College and an expanding health sciences pathway at Hastings
Real-Time Data Infrastructure
Implementation Focus
TUC is building CCMR and advising data infrastructure to move from static reporting toward real-time, action-oriented dashboards
Districts have built dashboards tracking applications, financial aid, CCMR indicators, and Outcomes Bonus funding
What’s Next
Rolling out real-time dashboards to campus leaders and building routines that connect data to advising and course placement decisions at the student level
Real Impact
shared data infrastructure taking shape across districts, tracking the full CCMR picture from applications through Outcomes Bonus funding
Smart Policy.
Strong Practice.
Real Impact.
