Welcome to Challenge Early College High School

Challenge Early College is a high school where students are given the unique opportunity to take college classes along with the regular high school curriculum. Housed on the HCCS West Loop campus, with articulated sharing of space and staff, CECHS allows the high school student to gradually integrate into college course work through his or her traditional high school degree plan.

For more information, explore this website, download the 2010-2011 Student Handbook, or call (713) 664-9712.

Congratulations to the Class of 2010

Final Transcripts for the 2010 graduates of Challenge Early College High School are available.

Teacher Leadership and Partnership at Challenge Early College High School

Ask Josh Silberman, a teacher at Challenge Early College High School in Houston ISD, what he loves most about teaching you’ll get a variety of answers – among them, the chance to lead in the school. Currently, Josh and his colleague Paul Cross are working on a new reform project...
Read the full article (Houston A+ Challenge website)...

Early-college programs rethink high expectations

It was Michael Rosa’s third day of Spanish at Hostos Community College in New York City, even though he was just 14. Rosa got into a shouting match with his professor. It happened so often in those days that he doesn’t remember what this particular fight was about ...
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America's Best High Schools

CECHS makes Newsweek magazine's America's Best High Schools list

Each year, Newsweek picks the best high schools in the country based on how hard school staffs work to challenge students with advanced placement college-level courses and tests. Just over 1600 schools—only six percent of all the public schools in the U.S.—made the list. Challenge Early College High School is one of them.

CECHS is awarded the Silver Medal from US News and World Report

Best High Schools

Challenge Early College High School is ranked as one of America's Best High Schools by US News and World Report. The America's Best High Schools project is an annual report that identifies the country's top-performing high schools. The goal is to provide a clear, unbiased picture of how well public schools serve all of their students - from the highest achieving to the lowest achieving - in preparing them to demonstrate proficiency in basic skills as well as readiness for college-level work. In receiving the Silver Medal, CECHS ranks in the top 3% of high schools surveyed.