In 2017-2018, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) launched Achieve 180, a program centered upon a comprehensive action plan to increase student achievement at 45 schools, including the 27 schools that received the Texas Education Agency Campus Accountability rating of "Improvement Required" (IR) in 2016-2017 and 18 former IR schools, campuses that received the IR rating in 2015-2016, but received the "Met Standard" rating in 2016-2017. In February 2018, one of the charter schools closed, leaving 44 participating campuses. The Achieve 180 Program was created to support, strengthen, and empower these underserved and underperforming schools and their communities using best practices for successful school turnaround, including effective teachers, strong principal leadership, and school environments of high expectations for students and staff. The program's six pillars of (1) Leadership Excellence; (2) Teaching Excellence; (3) Instructional Excellence; (4) School Design; (5) Social and Emotional Learning Support; and (6) Family and Community Empowerment guide the framework to strategically transform educational processes at the 44 Achieve 180 Program schools and throughout their feeder patterns, and impact nearly 2,000 teachers and 30,000 students. The purpose of this 2017-2018 (Year 1) report is to evaluate the Achieve 180 Program's alignment to the District's goals, assess program outcomes for 2016-2017 (baseline) and 2017-2018 (Year 1), delineate program implementation in 2017-2018 (Part A), and assess progress made toward program goals and objectives in 2017-2018 (Part B). [To view "Achieve 180 Program Evaluation, Part A: Implementation and Preliminary Findings, 2017-2018," see ED598410.]