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Looks up magnet schools.
If you want ivys I think kinkaid or St. John’s are the best options. Memorial high school probably wouldn’t get you into a top college without outside help but provides a great network if your kid comes back to Houston.
Mandarin Immersion Magnet and ThRogers are the only top k-8th in Houston for diversity and academic rigor. If you see China is going stronger, you may want kids to learn Mandarin like the Trump family and other celebrities. THRogers is all gifted/talented if your kid shows no interested in a foreign language and is tested/qualified for it.
Niche has most college outcomes from the top public and private schools. I took my son to John cooper for a year and we liked the community, but the college outcomes were very similar to the public woodlands schools. There are a few others that may hit more cultural diversity. I was impressed with the classrooms but not the resources offered. Maybe that’s different for high schoolers.
Houston is a diverse city, so you’ll see quite a bit of diversity in many of the city schools. I can’t speak to the suburbs, though from what I’ve seen from playing various sports teams, it varies considerably (aka Sugarland is diverse…The Woodlands, less so). As for the academics, HISD is tricky - you will see kids who graduate and go onto Ivy Leagues and top nationally ranked schools, but the average experience can be pretty mediocre. My kids graduated from HISD schools and their social experience was very good - and they struggled in college for the first year because their study skills were lousy. They have no regrets and neither do I, but I traded one type of learning for another.
For inside the loop private schools, you’re also going to see a range regarding ethnic diversity: SJS is more diverse than EHS, for example. If you want to see more economic diversity, the faith-based schools (the true faith based, aka the Catholic schools) tend to have more than the other private schools.
I am biased because I went there, but if academic rigor and competitiveness for out of state colleges is important to you, St. John’s is the clear number one. Lots of great schools in the area that excel in other ways, but SJS is above all others in that specific metric.
We have loved Frostwood, Memorial Middle and Memorial High and found them just as competitive if not more than our private school in New Orleans.
CISD is diverse and good.
I went to HISH schools that were IB schools and found that the rigor in the IB program prepared me well for college. I hated it while in the program, but was thankful when I seemed to have an easier time than most in my freshman classes. The college credits from passing the
IB exams were also nice.