During the 2024-2025 fall testing cycle, just over 300 Houston-area students prepared for their ISEE and SSAT private school admissions tests with General Academic. While every child’s situation is unique and results cannot be guaranteed, we are delighted to see such excellent outcomes from this year’s cohort. In particular, our [...]
What Does a Private Tutor Do? Private tutors benefit all students across the academic spectrum, whether they are a straight-A student or struggle to earn Cs or Bs. Regardless of standing, private tutors help students get ahead, remediate weaknesses, and maintain academic strengths: Getting ahead [...]
Every child is unique, and families want to make sure they choose the best right school for their child. As such Houston is home to more than 350 private schools enrolling more than 66,000 students. Additionally, more than 15,000 public school students attending Houston ISD also get to choose [...]
Houston's Graduating Seniors Get Smarter The 2024-2025 National Merit Scholarship Competition is looking to be a good year for Houston-area high school seniors. There are 582 seniors who scored in the top 1% on the PSAT to earn the celebrated “Semifinalist” designation and will go on to compete for the [...]
Houston's Graduating Seniors are Smart The 2024 National Merit Scholarship Competition was a good year for Houston-area high school seniors. There were 466 area seniors who scored in the top 1% on the PSAT to earn the celebrated “Semifinalist” designation. This number was fairly stable compared to last year's [...]
General Academic is actively hiring brilliant tutors to join our Houston team; no car is required when working from our Rice Village office. Tutoring K12 students is both emotionally fulfilling and financially rewarding. We are Houston’s premier tutoring, test prep, enrichment, and publishing company based in the Rice Village. [...]
We are operating all services "as normal" while taking every precaution in the face of the continuing pandemic threat. We are closely monitoring the ongoing covid threats including the emergence of new variants and continue to follow local and CDC guidelines. The vaccination rate among our team is over 98%. [...]
Our summer courses for College Applications, ISEE, P/SAT, and ACT provide an invaluable head start to fall testing and applications. Our very small classes are capped at 6 students and allow for individualized attention from our brilliant instructors. All classes meet remotely or at our socially-distanced, loft-like office just [...]
The global COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the academic year for Houston-area students. As of this writing, private and public schools are ordered closed through the end of the 2019-2020 academic year. Academic Schedule Disruptions due to Covid STAAR end of year testing is suspended per [...]
Our summer courses for the ISEE, P/SAT, and ACT provide an invaluable head start to fall testing. Our very small classes are capped at 8 students and allow for individualized attention from our brilliant instructors. All classes meet remotely or at our socially-distanced, loft-like office just north of the [...]