Harris County, Texas
Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas; as of the 2020 census, the population was 4,731,145, making it the most populous county in Texas and the third most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Houston, ...
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Greater Houston
Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Co ...
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Public schools
This is a list of
school districts
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Texas
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Houston ISD
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas, and the eighth-largest in the United States. Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and ...
Kingwood Park High School
Kingwood Park High School (K-Park) is a high school located within the Kingwood community of Houston, Texas, United States. Kingwood Park is a part of the Humble Independent School District. On average, Kingwood Park serves approximately 1,700 st ...
, is also within Harris County, as in it is on the county line)
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Klein ISD
Klein Independent School District (Klein ISD) is a school district that covers in Harris County, Texas, United States. It became an independent school district in 1938. Almost all of the territory is unincorporated; a small portion of Houston i ...
* La Porte ISD (as of 2022, while the district has territory in Chambers County it does not operate schools within Chambers County)
* Pasadena ISD
* Sheldon ISD
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Spring ISD
Spring Independent School District is a school district based in the Gordon M. Anderson Leadership Center in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States. It is located in north Harris County.
The district serves over 32,100 pre-kindergar ...
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Spring Branch ISD
Spring Branch Independent School District is a school district headquartered in Hedwig Village, Texas, United States in Greater Houston. The district serves portions of western Houston,Morales, Katherine.Residents working to retain superintendent ...
; Defunct
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North Forest ISD
North Forest Independent School District (NFISD) was a school district in northeast Houston, Texas, Houston, Texas. Established in the early 1920s in a low-income white area, it later became majority-black and black-run. The district had a histo ...
The following lists schools within districts partially within Harris County:
Clear Creek ISD
Clear Creek Independent School District (CCISD) is a school district based in League City, Texas, United States. The district serves most of the Clear Lake Area and some other neighboring parts of the Houston metropolitan area. CCISD is the 29 ...
Zoned high schools
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Clear Brook High School
Clear Brook High School is a secondary school located in Friendswood, Texas, United States.
Notable alumni
*Stephanie Beatriz, actress
* Ben Emanuel, Safety, Calgary Stampeders CFL
* Anthony Hill, NFL tight end
*Ronnie Price, National Basketba ...
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Houston
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Alternative high schools
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Clear Horizons Early College High School
Clear Horizons Early College High School is a public secondary school located in Houston, Texas, United States. In this program, {{citation needed span, an associate degree is completed simultaneously within the student's four years of high schoo ...
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Houston
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Clear View Education Center
Clear View High School is a secondary school located in Webster, Texas, in the Clear Creek Independent School District. The school serves all of CCISD, including the cities of Kemah, Clear Lake Shores, Nassau Bay, Webster, El Lago, and Taylo ...
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Webster
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Intermediate schools
*Brookside Intermediate School (Harris Co. By Friendswood)
*Creek Side Intermediate (League City)
* Clear Lake Intermediate School (Houston)
*Seabrook Intermediate School ( Seabrook)
*Space Center Intermediate School (Houston)
* Westbrook Intermediate School (Houston, formerly Webster Intermediate School in Webster)
Elementary schools
*Armand Bayou Elementary School (
Houston
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*Bay Elementary School ( Seabrook)
*Brookwood Elementary School (
Pasadena
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Its ...
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*Clear Lake City Elementary School (Houston)
*Falcon Pass Elementary School (Houston)
*P. H. Greene Elementary School (''Unincorporated'' Harris County by Friendswood/)
*Landolt Elementary School (''Unincorporated'' Harris Countynear Friendswood)
*Margaret S. McWhirter Elementary School (
Webster
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* North Pointe Elementary School (Houston)
*G. W. Robinson Elementary School (Pasadena)
*Ward Elementary School (Houston)
*Arlyne and Alan Weber Elementary School (''Unincorporated'' Harris County)
*Wedgewood Elementary School ( Friendswood)
*G. H. Whitcomb Elementary School (Houston)
*White Elementary School ( El Lago)
Katy ISD
The Katy Independent School District (KISD) is a public school district based in Katy, Texas, United States with an enrollment of over 85,700 students. As of August 2009, the district was rated as "Recognized" by the Texas Education Agency.
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Zoned high schools
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James E. Taylor High School
James E. Taylor High School (THS) is a public high school in unincorporated area, unincorporated Harris County, Texas, in Greater Katy. The school, in Nottingham Country, which serves grades 9 through 12, is part of Katy Independent School Distr ...
National Blue Ribbon School
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Mayde Creek High School
Mayde Creek High School (MCHS) is a public high school located on Groschke Road in unincorporated area, unincorporated Harris County, Texas, Harris County, Texas, and is part of the Katy Independent School District. Mayde Creek serves the portio ...
National Blue Ribbon School
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Morton Ranch High School
Morton Ranch High School is a secondary school in the Katy Independent School District. It opened in 2004, and is located in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States. It is part of a multi-school complex, including Morton Ranch Elem ...
(''Unincorporated Harris County'') (Est. 2004)
Zoned junior high schools Cardiff Junior High School (''Unincorporated Harris County'') (Est. 2008-09) " ''
Houston Chronicle
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Katy High School
Katy High School is a high school located in Katy, Texas which serves grades 9 through 12. It is a part of the Katy Independent School District. The school serves the City of Katy and the unincorporated Harris County community of Cimarron.John ...
National Blue Ribbon School
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National Blue Ribbon School
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Harris County Department of Education
Harris County Department of Education (HCDE) is located in Northside, Houston, Northside, Houston and stands as Texas' last Common School District, distinct from an independent school district. HCDE offers a range of educational services to Harri ...
, which is not classified as a school district under Texas law, operates several special Education and alternative schools.
YES Prep Public Schools
YES Prep Public Schools, Inc. is a network of public, open-enrollment charter schools located in Greater Houston. Its headquarters are located at its Southside campus. The YES program is a university-preparatory program for grades K-12.
Histo ...
George I. Sanchez Charter Schools
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University of Houston Charter School
University of Houston Charter School (UCHS) was a state charter primary school located in the Melcher Gymnasium 100 at 3855 Holman Street in Houston, Texas, United States. The school was operated by the University of Houston. The university operat ...
Raul Yzaguirre School for Success
Raul Yzaguirre Schools for Success (RYSS) is a state charter school system in Texas. The organization operates two schools in Texas; one is in Brownsville, and one is in Houston. The Tejano Center for Community Concerns, which operates the chart ...
; Defunct
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Benji's Special Educational Academy
Benji's Special Educational Academy Independent School District (or Benji's Academy Charter School) was a charter school, state charter school with two campuses (including Benji's II) in the Northside, Houston, Northside district of Houston, Texas, ...
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Girls and Boys Preparatory Academy
Girls and Boys Preparatory Academy (GBPA) was a K-12 state-chartered primary and secondary school located in Greater Sharpstown, Houston, Texas.newspapers center accessible with a library card number and password.
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Jamie's House Charter School Jamie's House Charter School was a 6-12 state charter school in unincorporated northern Harris County, Texas.Mellon, Ericka.Texas law on charter schools has big loophole" ''Houston Chronicle''. May 12, 2010. Retrieved on May 13, 2010.
History
The ...
* High School for Business and Economic Success, became an HISD charter named
Leader's Academy High School for Business and Academic Success
Leader's Academy High School for Business and Academic Success, previously the High School for Business and Economic Success (HSBES), was a Grade 7–12 state charter school located on the campus of Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Windso ...
in 2007 and later merged into Victory Prep
* Medical Center Charter School, a pre-kindergarten through 5th grade
charter school
A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located. It is independent in the sense that it operates according to the basic principle of auto ...
, was located in the Westbury area. Despite its name, the school is not located in the
Texas Medical Center
The Texas Medical Center (TMC) is a medical district and neighborhood in south-central Houston, Texas, United States, immediately south of the Museum District and west of Texas State Highway 288. Over 60 medical institutions, largely concentrate ...
area. Medical Center Charter School opened in 1996, and catered to employees working in the Medical Center and had the
Montessori method
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,Berryhill, Michael. "Think Small." ''
Houston Press
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The publication is supported entirely by advertising ...
''. Thursday August 15, 1996 1 Retrieved on December 2, 2011. used until grade two. Its specialty as of 2003 was foreign languages. In 2014 the
Texas Education Agency
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is the branch of the government of Texas responsible for public education in Texas in the United States.
(TEA) announced that the school's performance was insufficient and that it sought to revoke its charter. By 2018 its charter had closed.
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Victory Preparatory Academy
Victory Preparatory Academy or Victory Prep (VPREP) was a charter school in Houston, Texas that had two campuses: one in the city's south, Victory Preparatory Academy South; and a northern campus, Victory Preparatory Academy North. The system all t ...
(became an HISD charter in 2016, closed in 2018)
Private schools
Secular private schools
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Alexander-Smith Academy
Alexander-Smith Academy (ASA) was a private school located at 10255 Richmond Avenue in the Westchase, Houston, Westchase district of Houston, Texas, United States.
History
The school opened in 1968. In 1973 the school received new ownership and th ...
- Houston
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Awty International School
Founded in 1956,The Awty International School is a private school located in Spring Branch, western Houston, Texas, United States. Awty allows its students to receive the International Baccalaureate or the French Baccalauréat, and is the only sc ...
Unincorporated area
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Greater Katy
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Highlands
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The Kinkaid School
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Piney Point Village
Piney Point Village is a city in Harris County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,125 at the 2010 census. Piney Point Village is the wealthiest place in Texas, as ranked by per capita income. It is part of a collection of upscale resident ...
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Memorial Private High School
Memorial Private School is a private life and college prep school for grades 6-12 in the Memorial, Houston, Memorial area of Houston, Texas. Opened in 2004, the school was established by Harry and Pam Camp, who respectively originated from the Shar ...
The Monarch School
The Monarch School is a combined primary and secondary school headquartered in Spring Branch, Houston, Texas. Monarch serves children with neurological disorders and learning disabilities, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, d ...
Houston Sudbury School Houston Sudbury School (HSS) is a non-profit private Sudbury school in Spring Branch, Houston, Texas. The school serves students of ages 6–18 and follows the Sudbury model of self-education.
The democracy is meted out in a weekly school meetin ...
- Houston
* The Tenney School - Houston
* The Village School - Houston
* The Woodlands Preparatory School - The Woodlands, ''unincorporated area''
* Robindell Private School (Kindergarten and grade 1) - In
Gulfton
Gulfton is a community in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States that includes a group of apartment complexes that primarily house refugee and immigrant populations. It is located between the 610 Loop and Beltway 8, west of the City of Bellaire ...
,
Houston
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* Trafton Academy ( K-8) - in Willowbend, Houston, Opened in 1973
* Melinda Webb School (infants to 7 years old) - Located in the
Texas Medical Center
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, it is operated by the Center for Hearing and Speech and was previously at 3636 W. Dallas. The school serves as a day school for children not yet mainstreamed into regular classrooms and a speech and therapy center for those that are. Previously known as the Houston School for Deaf Children, it was given its current name, after a deaf girl, in 1997. The girl died of
leukemia
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circa 1958; a former student of the school, she had been the first area deaf child to be mainstreamed into a public school, as she began attending one in
Texas City
Texas City is a city in Galveston County, Texas, Galveston County in the U.S. state of Texas. Located on the southwest shoreline of Galveston Bay, Texas City is a busy deepwater port on Texas's Gulf Coast, as well as a petroleum-refining and pe ...
in 1954. Her father, Frank Webb, donated $1 million to what became the Melinda Webb School in 2002. That year its enrollment was 35-40. In 2020 it began admitting preschool students without hearing difficulties to provide a more mainstream environment.
Baytown Christian Academy
Baytown Christian Academy is a private Christian primary and secondary school located in Baytown, Texas. The school's administrative offices and campus are together. The school was established in 1979.
History
Previously, the main campus only h ...
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Baytown Baytown may refer to:
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*Baytown culture, an archaeological culture in the United States
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Christian Life Center Academy
Christian Life Center Academy (CLCA) is a private, college preparatory Christian school serving primary, secondary and postgraduate students located in the Kingwood area of Houston. It was previously in another section of the city of Houston, ne ...
Cypress
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Channelview
Channelview is a census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Texas on the eastside of Houston, Harris County. The population was 45,688 at the 2020 U.S. census.
History
Channelview was given its name since it is located on the nort ...
Clear Lake City
Clear Lake City is a master-planned community located in southeast Harris County, Texas, within the Bay Area of Greater Houston. It is the second-largest master-planned community in Houston – behind Kingwood. The majority of the communit ...
and Houston
* Highlands Latin School, a private K-12 Christian School, is in Meyerland Section 3."Meyerland Sec. 3" JPGPDF . Harris County Block Book Map. Volume 85, Page 88. Retrieved on July 26, 2017. Reservation E has Highlands Latin School/Pilgrim Lutheran Church and School property. The campus previously housed Pilgrim Lutheran School, a private K-8 Christian School, which later closed its K-8 section and now only has early childhood. - See banner at top
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Lutheran High School North (Texas)
Lutheran North Academy is a private Christian high school in Houston, Texas, United States. The school is affiliated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and is a member of the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools. It is in th ...
- Houston
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Lutheran South Academy
Lutheran South Academy is a private pre-kindergarten through 12th grade Lutheran school affiliated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod located in Houston, Texas, United States. It is a member of the Houston Area Independent Schools, a gro ...
- Houston
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Northland Christian School
Northland Christian School is a private, Christian, PK-12 school located in Northwest Houston.
History
Northland Christian School (NCS) was established in the spring of 1974. Seeking to create a school in their community that combined excellenc ...
- ''Unincorporated area''
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The Oaks Adventist Christian School
Houston Adventist Academy, previously known as The Oaks Adventist Christian School, is a private Christian school located in Cypress, an area in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, with PreKindergarten (4 year old) through twelfth grade. It ...
- ''Unincorporated area''
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River Oaks Baptist School
River Oaks Baptist School is a Private school, private, Christian, co-educational day school for students in K-8 school, preschool, lower school and middle school located in River Oaks, Houston, Houston, Texas. Founded as a mission of a small Bap ...
- Houston
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Rosehill Christian School
Rosehill Christian School (RCS) is a PreK-12 private Christian school in the Rose Hill area of unincorporated Harris County, Texas, near Tomball, United States. "19830 FM 2920 , Tomball, TX 77377"
History
The school opened in 1989 as a private ...
Second Baptist School
Second Baptist School is a private primary and secondary Christian school in the Memorial area of Houston, Texas, United States.
SBS serves approximately 1200 students from PK3 – 12. As a self-supporting agency of the Second Baptist Church of ...
Westbury Christian School
Westbury Christian School is a private, co-educational, K3 through 12th grade Christian school located in Houston, Texas, United States.
Westbury Christian School is open to students of all faiths, nationalities, and ethnic origins.
History
Pla ...
West University Place
West University Place, often called West University or West U for short, is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area and southwestern Harris County. At the 2020 U.S. census, the population of the city was 14,955. ...
* St. Nicholas School (K-8) is an Anglican school. In 1987 the school was established, and in 1993 it opened the Saint Nicholas School II campus in the
Texas Medical Center
The Texas Medical Center (TMC) is a medical district and neighborhood in south-central Houston, Texas, United States, immediately south of the Museum District and west of Texas State Highway 288. Over 60 medical institutions, largely concentrate ...
. residents of apartment complexes make up about 25% of the parents of the students, and the school rents from Bethany United Methodist Church. It will later occupy a new development on a property along South Main Street, in the 5 Corners District.
* Veritas Christian Academy of Houston in Bellaire
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Yellowstone Academy
Yellowstone Schools is a school organization based in the in the Third Ward, Houston, Texas.
One component is Yellowstone Academy, a non-profit,"Community Impact: Jack Blanton Community Center at Yellowstone Academy." ''Houston Business Journal' ...
The Emery/Weiner School
The Emery/Weiner School (EWS) is a co-educational, independent Jewish day school in Houston, Texas, United States,Stanton, Robert.'Death Valley' coming back to life" ''Houston Chronicle''. Thursday July 19, 2001. Retrieved on January 7, 2012. se ...
Al-Hadi School of Accelerative Learning
The Al-Hadi School of Accelerative Learning (AHS) is an Islamic primary and secondary school in Southwest Houston, Southwest Houston, Texas.Iman Academy - Houston
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Islamic Education Institute of Texas
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(Darul Arqam Schools) - Multiple campuses in Harris County, some in Houston, some in ''unincorporated areas''
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Mount Carmel High School (Houston)
Mount Carmel High School was a private school, private, Roman Catholic high school in Houston, Texas, Houston, Texas, United States. Founded in 1956 by the Carmelite order, Mount Carmel was the first Houston area Catholic high school establishe ...
Meyerland
Meyerland is a community in southwest Houston, Texas, outside of the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8. The neighborhood is named after the Meyer family, who bought and owned 6,000 acres (24 km²) of land in southwest Houston.
Meyerland is th ...
, HoustonContact Us ." Pilgrim Lutheran School. Retrieved on July 26, 2017. "Pilgrim Lutheran School 8601 Chimney Rock Rd. (corner of Beechnut) Houston, TX 77096" It now only has early childhood as its K-8 section closed, with Highlands Latin School occupying the space.
See also
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List of schools in Houston
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- Includes parts of Houston in Fort Bend and Montgomery counties