• About Alar Institute
Our Institute was founded as a family enterprise in March 1999. We opened our doors in the Southwest Houston with four small classrooms, offering English as a second language courses and G.E.D (General Education Development) for the Hispanic community. We have operated from day one from 8:00 in the morning until 10:00 p.m. allowing every student the possibility to attend classes in spite of differential work schedules.
We have committed ourselves not only to provide an honest service but also to respond, to the best of our ability, to our students’ unique characteristics and needs. We do this by periodically evaluating our services from the administrative point of view, by responding to our population’s financial and economic needs, and by constantly monitoring and improving the quality of our academic programs.
From the academic aspect, we provide excellence by hiring instructors who are committed to our mission, beliefs, and goals, and who are willing to acquire the needed expertise to respond to our high quality instruction standards. In-services and training are provided weekly in order to improve our instruction.
We have periodically expanded our facility adding more classrooms and computer labs in which students were able to access several self-directed learning software in five computers. The computer lab complements the instruction by allowing our students to extend what is taught in the classroom at their own phase and time. It has also been the main difference over our competitors in terms of what we offer to our students.
In the course of these past five years we added Defensive Driving, Computer classes, Air Conditioning State Certification, Electricity and Citizenship courses in Spanish.
On December 2000, we changed from a sole proprietorship to small corporation. This enabled us to offer better stability for our instructors and administrative personnel thus raising our personnel selectivity.
On June 2002 a new branch was opened in Spring Branch, Houston. The new facility has ten classrooms, a computer lab, and a students’ lounge comprised in 4,090 sq.ft. space.
We currently employ ten full time and six part time instructors, three secretaries, and one dean of instruction. Our corporation has revenues of $550k/ year; a big portion of this amount is reinvested in our Institute constantly striving to improve the quality of our services and the environment of our students.
We have successfully been providing adult educational services to the following Houston Independent School District Schools:
Fondren Middle School, Bonner Elementary, Cornelius Elementary, Memorial Elementary, West Briar Middle, Page Elementary, Piney Point Elem, Sinclair Elem, Berry Elem., Southmayd Elem., Fonville Middle School, DRAW Academy Charter School, Davila Elem., Stevenson Middle School, the North Central District: S. Rodriguez Elem., Kolter Elem., Juan N. Seguin Elem., Scott Elem., Garcia Elem., Patterson Elem., Field Elem., Durkee Elem., Windsor Village Elem., DeChaumes Elem., Montgomery Elem., Almeda Elem., Sharpstown Middle, Sam Houston High, Southeast District: Rucker Elem., Jefferson Elem., Hines, Caldwell, Park Place, Chavez High, Reagan High, Osborne Elem., Janowski, Washington High, Welch Middle, Port Houston, Browning Elem., Holland Middle, Hartman Middle, Fleming, Target Hunger, Parker Elem., Jackson Midd., Bonham Elem., Codwell Elem., and South West Charter. Also Spring Branch ISD, Westwood Elem., and Spring Shadow Elem. And Aldine ISD, Aldine High. Our Educational program and service falls under the guidelines of Title I, III, VII, XXI Century Grants and Parent Engagement Program.
