Cosmetology

Are you interested in being in the Cosmetology program at San Jacinto College during the school day in your 11th and 12th Grade years? If so, please read the following information if it sounds like something you are still interested in for your junior and senior year. Please see the attached flyer for our next Cosmetology Tour on February 4, 2026. 

General Info

Pearland ISD partners with San Jacinto College to offer our students participation in their Cosmetology program while students are still in high school. If you are accepted into the Cosmo program for the 2026-2027 school year, you would be dually enrolled at Dawson High School and San Jacinto College. You would start your day at Dawson for the first 5 periods of each school day, where you would take your core classes of English, Math, Science, Social Studies and one elective course. Then, you would take a shuttle bus or drive yourself to San Jacinto College South Campus off Beamer, where you will have two Cosmo classes daily that go from 1-4pm. There is a shuttle when the class is over that brings students back to Dawson High School, but there is not transportation home from San Jac, so parents must pick up students daily either at San Jacinto College or from Dawson HS if they bus back to Dawson. If you are in extracurricular programs that require practice during 6-7 periods and/or after school, this program will not work with the cosmetology program. 

Cost

You would pay tuition for the San Jac Cosmo classes and buy your hair kit. The kit costs about $1000 and you would have to pay tuition directly to San Jac for two courses in 11th Grade and two more courses in 12th Grade to complete the program. Contact San Jacinto College Cosmo program advisors for more information about the investment required. Here is the contact info: 

Cosmo License

If you are in the program for two years in 11th and 12th Grade, you can earn your Cosmetology license upon completion of the program, and you could graduate high school as a licensed cosmetologist if you complete both the 11th and 12th Grade Cosmo 1 and 2 courses.

Do I Qualify to be in the Cosmo program?

Talk with your Dawson School Counselor to see if you have fulfilled your credits in 9th and 10th Grade to be a candidate for the Cosmo program. Typically, students that can participate in the Cosmo program if they have already finished their one year of P.E., two years of foreign language and one year of fine art required for graduation. Sophomores who either already have the Human Services Program of Study in place or are seriously considering switching into it are the right candidates for this program. We want to reserve this opportunity for students who have a genuine interest in applying. Seats are limited district-wide, and it is not guaranteed that students will be accepted into the program. If there is more interest than spots available, entrance into the program will go to a lottery system, ran by the district. If you participate in band, sports or any program that has practice after school or requires you be in a period in 6th or 7th period, you would not be able to be in the Cosmo program.

We do take a group of 10th grade students to tour San Jac, typically in February each year. The tour will be on FEBRUARY 4, 2026. We have 16 slots for the tour. If you are interested in signing up for the tour, please see Monica Rizqi in the Counseling Office.