Harris County Department of Education (HCDE) is an agency of the government of Harris County, Texas, in the Houston metropolitan area; it is headquartered in Northside district in Houston. As of 2018 [update] it handles the enrollment of around 200 students with special needs. [1]
Under Texas law it is not a school district. [1]
Seven elected Harris County school trustees oversee the operation of the Harris County Department of Education. Trustees are elected through a partisan election process via the Republican and Democratic primaries and in the November general elections, serving staggered six-year terms of office, with three trustees elected countywide and four trustees elected to oversee the four commissioner precincts in Harris County.[ citation needed ]
It is headquartered in the Ronald W. Reagan Administration Building in Northside district in Houston. [2] [3]
It directly operates the following alternative schools:
The county previously operated Highpoint North, an alternative school for children with behavior problems, located at the current Fortis Academy location. [10]
As of 2001 [update] seven school districts sent students with behavior problems to Harris County Highpoint Schools. [10]