H-Town to Keller TX

[5stones]

Keller itself is not very diverse, neither is Grapevine, Southlake etc...
In Keller ISD (not city limits) there is more diversity. Watagua, and the areas West of 377. Central HS is probably the most diverse, Timber Creek next. So if you have elementary kids look for the schools that feed into Central HS. Keller has a few dual language schools, Parkview is probably the most diverse (with many nationalities)

North Richland Hills is right next to Keller, some neighborhoods zoned Keller ISD, it’s a lower price point than Keller proper and more diverse. NRH schools are good.

Hurst, Eulass, Bedford (HEB) will be your most diverse area, the schools are good and solid in preformance, some better than others so research. Home range from modest older 1970 ranch houses to newer bigger houses. If I remember correctly part of Bedford is zoned Colleyville.
Home prices are lower than Keller or NRH on average.

Again the whole area around there has good schools and low crime. There are areas of each that will have higher crime etc but nothing horrible.

[bmlx]

Originally Posted by 5stones

North Richland Hills is right next to Keller, some neighborhoods zoned Keller ISD, it’s a lower price point than Keller proper and more diverse. NRH schools are good.

Only a small portion of northern NRH (generally along North Tarrant Parkway, though the neighborhood next to Dr. Pillow Park attends Birdville schools) is zoned to Keller ISD; the vast majority is zoned to Birdville ISD. BISD high schools, at least, should be more socioeconomically diverse as all three of them (Haltom, Richland, Birdville HSs) draw kids from the southern part of the district (eg. Haltom City, Richland Hills). Similarly, Watauga is also split between Keller and Birdville schools; the southern and eastern parts (south of Hightower plus all of eastern Watauga next to Rufe Snow) of Watauga attend Birdville schools. I would not write off BISD even if their schools have larger numbers of children from lower-income families relative to KISD.

Originally Posted by 5stones

Hurst, [Euless], Bedford (HEB) will be your most diverse area, the schools are good and solid in preformance, some better than others so research. Home range from modest older 1970 ranch houses to newer bigger houses. If I remember correctly part of Bedford is zoned Colleyville.
Home prices are lower than Keller or NRH on average.

All of Bedford is zoned for HEBISD schools. I believe you are thinking about northern Euless, which is in fact zoned to Grapevine-Colleyville ISD. A small portion of Colleyville, Tara Plantation (adjacent to Bedford), is zoned to HEBISD rather than GCISD, as at the time Tara Plantation was developed in the 1970s, HEBISD was the stronger district; this boundary change essentially occurred at the request of Tara's developers. Another small portion of Colleyville also feeds into Keller ISD as well (Liberty Elementary area).

[5stones]

Thx... my memory.
But my point is that the schools zone lines cross cross etc... so just because your address may be 1 city doesn’t mean those are the schools your kids will attend.
Realtors are not always the best source of current zones either. You could be in walking distance to a school and assume it’s where your kids would attend, only to find out is not only a different school but different district all together! I’ve felt with some furious parents at registration when being told that they are zone for a certain district.

I used to work for KISD, so my advice is always call the school directly to make sure your address is zoned for the school you think it is. Districts do have zoning maps on their websites, but some are hard to read etc...