1.7 years Average number of high school credits earned per student in 90 days. The CEP program includes a mandatory two-week orientation session that teaches students the academic and behavioral expectations of the program. Intensive diagnostic tests are used to find out precisely what a student's skill levels are, and what skills are missing. Students also learn they are in a secure environment, and will be frisked and pass through a metal detector every day. All work is done in school-students do not need to carry backpacks and bags.
Every hallway is monitored by security guards.
The principal of a Houston high school with 3,500 students said sending chronically disruptive students to CEP makes his campus safer. The principal said it was easier to get a student admitted to CEP than to the internal HISD alternative education program. In addition, the Houston Federation of Teachers has been supportive of CEP because it takes disruptive students out of regular classrooms, improving the learning environment for other students, while giving at-risk students a chance to succeed. The firm uses pre-testing and assessment to determine student needs. A prescribed individual instructional plan meeting state standards is developed for each student.