Friendswood ISD board of trustees reviewed the district's 2025-26 state accountability scores at its Oct. 26 workshop, including progress toward goals to improve student academic growth. 

Some context: Based on FISD’s score of a 92, the district previously outlined a goal to increase academic growth and relative performance scores by two letter grades at each campus and districtwide by the end of the 2025-26 school year, district documents show. 

Both measures fall under the school progress category and track how much students improve academically and how campuses perform compared with similar schools, documents show. 

Diving in deeper: For academic growth, the district maintained a score of 80 for both the 2024-25 school year and the 2025-26 school year, documents show. The district's relative performance score, which compares schools with similar economically disadvantaged student populations, increased from 73 to 74 for the 2025-26 school year. 

Citizen Rec, an Australian-inspired café, is coming soon to Webster this fall, according to a news release from the café.

What's special about it: The concept will be a café by day and an upscale Aussie pub by night, the release notes.

Breakfast items will include scratch-made dishes, such as the miso-butterscotch banana bread toast and the Australian big breakfast.

Diving in deeper: Menu highlights for the pub include steak and Guinness chef pie, barramundi fish and chips, an oyster and Guinness shooter, Guinness bread with house-made Vegemite-marbled butter, Timtams tiramisu and classic shrimp on the barbie cooked on live fire.

📍19403 Gulf Freeway, Ste. 400, Webster

Several events commemorating Veterans Day are taking place in the Greater Houston area.

Field of Honor: The Exchange Club of Sugar Land is paying tribute to veterans, first responders and countless other heroes by flying 2,026 flags on a one-acre field. 

• Nov. 7-13; different ceremonies taking place on Nov. 9-11

• 13850 University Blvd., Sugar Land

Houston Salutes American Heroes Veterans Day Celebration: The traditional Veterans Day ceremony will take place in Downtown Houston with acknowledgements and keynote speaker Chase Untermeyer.

• Nov. 11, 10 a.m. (ceremony); 11:30 a.m. (parade start)

• 900 Bagby St., Houston

Thankful for Our Heroes Singo Bingo: Los Jarritos Mexican Grill is hosting a special bingo competition filled with music, singing and the chance to honor veterans for everything they do to keep America safe.

• Nov. 12, 6:30 p.m.

• 20669 W. Lake Houston Parkway, Humble