EE-12 schools •
Thomas Horace Rogers School (alternative school) is part Vanguard school (K-8), part school for the deaf (K-8), and part school for multiply impaired children (K-12).
EE-8 schools Traditional: •
Gregory Lincoln Education Center (zoned school) (Houston) Alternative: • Briarmeadow Charter School (HISD charter school) (Houston) • Named after the
Briarmeadow community, it was created in 1997, with 125 students, to relieve Piney Point and three other elementary schools. Briarmeadow Charter at one time rented space at the Post Oak
YMCA, • Garden Oaks K-8 School (Houston) (zoned for K-5, magnet for K-8) • Serves most of
Garden Oaks and a section of
Oak Forest • Thomas J. Pilgrim Academy (zoned school) (Houston) • The school was built in 1957, on the sesquicentennial of the birth of
Thomas J. Pilgrim, and opened as Thomas J. Pilgrim Elementary School. In 2006 it began adding middle school grades, and in 2007 it changed its name to its current one and moved into its current location. Carter G. Woodson K-8 Center in Houston formerly had PK-8; since 2018 is now has PK-5. Middle school students were rezoned to Albert Thomas Middle. Ericka Mellon of the
Houston Chronicle stated in 2015 that Woodson K-8 "performs well below the district average" although most Texas accountability test scores for the school increased during the period 2013–2014. In 2015
Children at Risk ranked Woodson K-8 an "F". •
The Rice School (La Escuela Rice in Spanish, Houston) (alternative)
Secondary schools 6-12 schools • Harper Alternative School (Houston) (alternative school) •
Jane Long Academy (Houston) - has a middle school with an attendance boundary, and an alternative high school •
Sharpstown International School (Houston) (magnet school)
High schools All
high schools are in the city of Houston unless otherwise noted. •
Stephen F. Austin High School (1936) •
Bellaire High School (1955), in the city of
Bellaire •
Carnegie Vanguard High School (2002) •
César E. Chávez High School (2000) •
Ebbert L. Furr High School (1961) •
Heights High School (2016–present) •
Sam Houston Math, Science, & Technology Center (1878) •
Kashmere High School (1957) •
Mirabeau B. Lamar High School (1936) •
James Madison High School (1965) •
Charles H. Milby High School (1926) •
North Forest High School (2008) •
Northside High School (2016–present) •
Scarborough High School (1968) •
Sharpstown High School (1968) •
Ross Shaw Sterling High School (1965) •
Stephen P. Waltrip High School (1959) •
Booker T. Washington High School (1893) •
Westbury High School (1961) •
Westside High School (2000) •
Phillis Wheatley High School (1927) •
Margaret Long Wisdom High School (2016–present) •
Evan E. Worthing High School (1958) •
Jack Yates High School (1926)
Other high schools All schools are in the city of Houston unless otherwise noted.
UIL ranking • Accelerated Learning And Transition Academy (ALTA) - closed May 2008 •
Challenge Early College High School •
Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions •
National Blue Ribbon School award winner in 1997-98 •
National Blue Ribbon School award winner in 2003 •
East Early College High School •
Eastwood Academy •
Energy Institute High School • HCC Life Skills Program •
Houston Academy for International Studies •
Barbara Jordan High School •
High School for Law and Justice (formerly High School for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice) •
Liberty High School (formerly Newcomer Charter High School) • Middle College High School-Felix Fraga • Middle College High School-Gulfton •
North Houston Early College High School •
Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) • 2005
National Blue Ribbon School • Circa 2019 over 40% of the teachers in each school year are not present in the following school year. • Frank Black Middle School (Houston) • Serves sections of
Oak Forest and
Garden Oaks • Luther Burbank Middle School (Houston) •
Burbank High School opened in 1927. The school was converted into a junior high school and received a new building in 1949. Burbank received a Vanguard magnet school program in 1979; it had been moved from Terrell Junior High. In the 1980s the grade configuration changed from grades 7–9 to 6–8, and the name was changed to Burbank Middle School. • In 1996 most of the students were from recent immigrants, and 87% of the students were Hispanic. The large number of immigrant students prompted the school to start special classes for bilingual students. By then the school held parent-teacher meetings in Spanish as well as English. Previously the school only had a summary of each meeting in Spanish, but as a result participation from Hispanophone parents was low. • Ruby Sue Clifton Middle School (Houston) • Serves sections of
Oak Forest • Ezekiel W. Cullen Middle School (Houston) • Serves the
Third Ward • James S. Deady Middle School (Houston) • Serves sections of the
East End • Deady's student body became a majority of racial and ethnic minorities in the early 1980s. • Thomas A. Edison Middle School (Houston) • Serves
Magnolia Park and other areas in the
East End • Walter W. Fondren Middle School (Houston) • Serves sections of
Fondren Southwest,
Maplewood South–North, a part of
Maplewood, and a small part of
Meyerland In 2015
Children at Risk ranked this school as "F". The purpose of the building changed after the 2008 merger of Forest Brook with
M. B. Smiley High School. Forest Brook Middle School became a part of HISD during the merger with the
North Forest Independent School District on July 1, 2013. • Alexander Hamilton Middle School (Houston) • Serves much of the
Houston Heights and a section of
Independence Heights • Hamilton previously had the Indians as a mascot, but in 2014 it adopted a new mascot, the Huskies, due to controversies over Native American naming. • Charles Hartman Middle School (Houston) • Serves
Garden Villas • Patrick Henry Middle School (Houston) • James Hogg Middle School (Houston) • Serves
Woodland Heights,
Norhill, sections of the
Houston Heights,
Cottage Grove,
First Ward,
Sixth Ward,
Rice Military, and
Crestwood/Glen Cove • Hogg, named after
Governor of Texas James Stephen Hogg, was built on land that was reserved for school usage by the developer of
Norhill. James Hogg's family had donated the land occupied by the school. It has 735 students as of 2015. 87% of the students are designated as low income, and the student body is majority Hispanic. The school occupies a three-story 1920s building. The school uses the
International Baccalaureate program. • Hogg's student body became mostly racial minority in the late 1970s. •
Francis Scott Key Middle School (Houston) •
Bob Lanier Middle School (formerly Sidney Lanier Middle School) (Houston) • Audrey H. Lawson Middle School (formerly Richard W. "Dick" Dowling Middle School) (Houston) • Serves
Hiram Clarke,
Brentwood,
Corinthian Pointe,
City Park, and
Almeda It opened on February 9, 1968. Frank Tritico had given the school district a paper highlighting the life of
Richard William "Dick" Dowling, and therefore the district chose to name the school after him. It replaced the former junior high school component of
Madison High School and had an initial enrollment of 1,107. At first it had grades 7-8, with the 9th grade opening in 1969. Its magnet program began on January 9, 1993, making it Richard W. Dowling Middle School of Fine Arts; the HISD board approved the establishment of the magnet program the previous November. As of 2009, 99% of the student body consists of racial and ethnic minorities. In 2016 the HISD board sought to rename schools named after officials in the
Confederate States of America; it was renamed after Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church first lady Audrey H. Lawson that year. Groundbreaking for Lawson's new 1,500 student, $59 million, three-story campus occurred in September 2016.
Madison High School is located in Hiram Clarke and serves residents of the Hiram Clarke area. • John Marshall Middle School (Houston) [opened in 1914 as North End Junior High School] • Serves the
Near North Side,
Lindale Park, and a small part of
Downtown Houston • Marshall's student body became mostly racial minority in the early 1960s. • Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts Middle School (formerly Albert Sidney Johnston Middle School) (Houston) • Serves most of
Meyerland,
Willowbend,
Willow Meadows • It was originally to be named
Theodore Roosevelt Middle School, but veterans of the
U.S. Civil War fighting for the
Confederate States of America complained, and the district ultimately named it after
Albert Sidney Johnston. The current Johnston Middle School opened in 1959. On May 12, 2016 the school received its current name. • In 2010 the school had about 1,400 students, with 650 in the magnet program. • Yolanda Black Navarro Middle School (formerly Stonewall Jackson Middle School) (Houston) • Serves
Eastwood,
Idylwood, the
Second Ward, and some other sections of the
East End, as well as
East Downtown • Daniel Ortiz, Jr. Middle School (Houston) • Serves
Park Place,
Glenbrook Valley, and
Thai Xuan Village • It was named after Daniel Ortiz, Jr. (1936-1994), an HISD employee from the
East End who served as a teacher and administrator, serving as HISD assistant superintendent. He retired in 1992. •
John J. Pershing Middle School, in Houston, is a fine arts, neighborhood, and gifted and talented Middle School. Pershing celebrated its 75th anniversary in the 2003–2004 school year. • Pin Oak Middle School (
Bellaire) is a foreign language magnet, and gifted and talented Middle School. Pin Oak does not have an attendance zone, students have to apply to get in. • It is an "application-only" school that accepts students by application. Anyone living in Houston ISD may apply for the Foreign Languages magnet program, and the pupils who are zoned to Meyerland Performing and Arts Middle School (formerly Johnston Middle School),
Jane Long Middle School, or
Pershing middle schools may apply to Pin Oak's regular program. The building sits on an campus. The school was named a
National Blue Ribbon School in 2008. The
Bellaire Examiner stated in 2010 "Pin Oak's innovative magnet and Vanguard programs have earned it honors and many more applicants each year than it can accept." In 2011 Isaiah Carey of
KRIV said that Pin Oak "is seen as one of the best in HISD for learning and education,[...]" Pin Oak is across the street from the
Houston Community College System's West Loop Center, and the
Challenge Early College High School (which is located inside HCC's West Loop Center), both of which are located in the city of Houston (Glenmont Street is on the border of Houston and Bellaire). • Paul Revere Middle School (Houston) (6–8) • Serves parts of
Westchase,
Briargrove Park and
Walnut Bend as well as a small section of
Piney Point Village • W. I. Stevenson Middle School (Houston) • Sugar Grove Middle School (Houston) • Serves sections of
Sharpstown and sections of
Chinatown as well as other parts of the
Southwest Management District • It was established in 2008; the campus was previously the unzoned relief elementary school Sugar Grove Elementary School, named after a church that previously occupied the school's current location. • In the period 2009 to 2019, the school had "improvement required" ratings from the State of Texas for four of those years. Each year, about 37% of the teachers present in one school year are not in the next. There were five principals in a period circa 2009 to 2019. Circa 2014, 925 students in the Sugar Grove attendance zone attended schools other than Sugar Grove middle. This increased to 1,200 circa 2019.) (Houston) • Serves
Tanglewood and
Briargrove as well as a small section of
Hunters Creek Village • Grady Middle School opened in 1992. The campus previously housed an elementary school, and was re-opened as a middle school because area parents thought Revere Middle School was too far away. • Albert Thomas Middle School (Houston) • Louie Welch Middle School (Houston) • Serves sections of
Fondren Southwest and
Missouri City • Welch's campus was built for about 1,133 students. In 1996 it had 1,700 students. There were also issues with the sewage system in the temporary building area as well as roof leaks and water issues from condensation. • Welch previously had the Warriors as a mascot, but in 2014 it adopted a new mascot, the Wolf Pack, due to controversies over Native American naming. The Carter G. Woodson School formerly had middle school levels, later became PK-8, and now is PK-5. Notable alumni of the middle school: •
South Park Mexican (Carlos Coy) - Also attended
Milby High School - rapper •
Scarface (Brad Terrence Jordan)
Other middle schools • Baylor College of Medicine Biotech Academy at Rusk (Formerly the Rusk School) (Houston) • Dominion Academy Charter School (Houston) • Energized For Excellence Middle School (Charter) (Houston) • High School Ahead Academy (Houston) •
Las Américas Middle School (Houston) (Moved to 6501 Bellaire Boulevard from 5909 Glenmont in 2007) • 2003
National Blue Ribbon School • North District Alternative Middle School (Houston) • Project Chrysalis Middle School (Houston) • Pro-Vision School (Houston) • Soar Center (Houston) • William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity (Walipp) Preparatory Academy for Boys (Houston)
Elementary schools Early childhood centers • Ashford Early Childhood Center (Houston) • Bellfort Early Childhood Center (Houston) • David "Davy" Crockett Early Childhood Center (Houston) (The campus was formerly Brock Elementary School - Elementary students were rezoned to Crockett ES) • Early Childhood Center (Houston, opening August 2005) • Fonwood Early Childhood Center • Originally Fonwood Elementary School of the
North Forest Independent School District, HISD converted Fonwood into the area's early childhood center after the takeover effective July 1, 2013. HISD did not state that NFISD was planning to close Fonwood. ==Defunct schools==