Schools · Houston
Houston, TX schools
Kids attend one of 171 schools through grade 12, then one of 165 high schools, one of 51 high schools and one of 39 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C−
Houston’s School Grade: C-
The public schools Houston’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 84% of Texas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
CTest scoresDGraduation
Texas school districts we grade (1,185)Better than 16%
Lower resultsHigher results
Texas towns with similar household incomes (742)Better than 6%
High confidence. Built on 74,347 tested students and a graduating class of 13,342; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Texas’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2019.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Texas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Texas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path
Where Houston kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
State test results
Math (grades PK–12, Houston Independent)27%
State average 36.5%
Graduation · class of 2019
79% graduate on time
Graduation rate
79%
TX: 90.2%
Graduating class
13,342
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #577 of 584 TX towns →
Districts
The district serving Houston
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 773 schools in Houston
Showing 1–30 of 773 schools
HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-KATYElementary · Grades PK–7 · 1,347 students
B+CharterPINEY POINT ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 1,286 students
C-PublicPILGRIM ACADEMYElementary · Grades PK–8 · 1,233 students
C-PublicKIPP MOSAIC PRIElementary · Grades PK–5 · 1,092 students
CharterKIPP SHARP PREPElementary · Grades PK–5 · 1,078 students
B+CharterKIPP CONNECT HOUSTON PRIElementary · Grades PK–5 · 1,056 students
BCharterKIPP UNITY PRIElementary · Grades PK–5 · 1,050 students
B+CharterRICE SCH /LA ESCUELA RICEElementary · Grades K–8 · 1,043 students
B-PublicBETA ACADEMYElementary · Grades PK–5 · 1,032 students
CharterEMERSON ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 990 students
C-PublicWOODARD ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 990 students
B+PublicOAK FOREST ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 950 students
APublicBONHAM ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 940 students
C-PublicKIPP DREAM PREPElementary · Grades PK–4 · 929 students
DCharterPARKER ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 924 students
A-PublicTWAIN ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 924 students
A+PublicSNEED ELElementary · Grades PK–4 · 922 students
DPublicKIPP SHINE PREPElementary · Grades PK–4 · 920 students
BCharterRODRIGUEZ ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 917 students
DPublicMCNAMARA ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 916 students
D-PublicHUFFMAN ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 915 students
C+PublicVALLEY OAKS ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 894 students
A+PublicASKEW ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 873 students
BPublicBANE ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 872 students
DPublicBRIARGROVE ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 871 students
BPublicOUTLEY ELElementary · Grades PK–4 · 863 students
C+PublicLAKESHORE ELElementary · Grades PK–5 · 862 students
C+PublicPINE SHADOWS ELElementary · Grades K–5 · 859 students
C+PublicENERGIZED FOR EXCELLENCE ACADEMY ELElementary · Grades K–5 · 857 students
C-CharterFORD ELElementary · Grades PK–4 · 857 students
B-PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.