One of the options available in CCISD is called the AVID program, which is growing and earning national recognition. The real winners are the students, who are walking away with lifelong skills.

AVID students from Permian and Odessa High participate in activities Thursday which explain how the AVID program impacted their lives during an event at the Odessa College Black Box Theater.

Just prior to the panel with sophomore students, who were the first AVID elective students during the 2023-24 school year, Dunn said she was particularly proud of two data points from the new program.

The findings, published Dec. 16 in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics, suggest that the Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) program, aimed at increasing educational opportunities for ...

“The excitement on the students’ faces as they toured the facilities, sampled the cafeteria cuisine and walked amongst the college students reminded me that all the preparatio ...

On Capital High School’s graduation day in 2011, one of the students left the football field to begin pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor. Three years later, across town at Santa Fe High ...