2012 edition of the CHRON Houston area school rankings are out (Katy: neighborhood, income)

[Supermac34]

They should only chart the schools without restrictive enrollment, or at least break that out into a different list.

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by 14Bricks

It has nothing to do with a available jobs. Everybody wants to go to Katy schools because they are supposed to be good schools. But when to many low I income people move in, white people or people with money move out. That's a fact. In happened in HISD back in the day, it happened in Alief, aldine, and it's going to happen in Katy too. I can easily picture a lot of these suburbs becoming future ghettos. You"ll have reserve white flight(because there is no where else to go) people will be moving back into city core(as we already see in gentrification of neighborhoods like montrose, midtown, third ward) and sending their kids to private schools.

No, its because the zones to Morton Ranch and Mayde Creek consists of mostly middle and working class neighborhoods. Williamsburg Settlement is one of the only "nicer" neighborhood in that area. Most of the neighborhoods built during the housing boom in tjis area were Postwood and KB Homes. A lot of people from lower income areas moved out there to be in Katy. The ones that got promoted moved to South Katy. Even then, the schools on both sides are fine. North Katy is sandwiched between two good areas though, plus the Grand Parkway will be going there, so values will rise.

[usc619]

Originally Posted by Trae713

No, its because the zones to Morton Ranch and Mayde Creek consists of mostly middle and working class neighborhoods. Williamsburg Settlement is one of the only "nicer" neighborhood in that area. Most of the neighborhoods built during the housing boom in tjis area were Postwood and KB Homes. A lot of people from lower income areas moved out there to be in Katy. The ones that got promoted moved to South Katy. Even then, the schools on both sides are fine. North Katy is sandwiched between two good areas though, plus the Grand Parkway will be going there, so values will rise.

Barkers Ridge (Zoned to Mayde) Creek is also another middle to upper middle class area.

[OrangeAndBlue]

Originally Posted by 14Bricks

According to this article Mayde creek and morton ranch are now considered "urban", meaning that at lest 50% of the students are low income. Basically Katy is turning into a slum. I can see a exceleration of reverse white flight in the next five years.

that's what "urban" means now? Those areas are about as suburban as it gets, but now we call it urban because there are low income people there

[jdw7337]

Originally Posted by 14Bricks

when to many low I income people move in, white people or people with money move out. That's a fact. I can easily picture a lot of these suburbs becoming future ghettos.

This is a fact we will have to live with my school way out on Houston's eastern edge(if you can call it that, we are outside the Grand Parkway's route) has just entered what we consider the "dumbing down" period as an influx of Pasadena and deer park residents move out to "the country" so they can live closer to the chemical plants of Baytown and have their kids in "better" schools.

Katy isn't becoming a slum, it's just entered a period where other people can now afford to move in. There isn't much room for Katy to grow anyway, it's reaching the edge of what people consider a reasonable to town commute.

These list overall mean very little because in most cases the schools on the list are never the same. They clarify schools in ways that many people do not agree and leave other schools out that could and sometimes should be on the lists.

[testmo]

the schools on the list are nearly always the same. DeBakey, Carnegie, some of the Yes Preps and Kipps are always ranked high. I know I remember a few of the others from year past

[vegankris]

And so it goes, Eastwood does well again! :-)

[DejaBlue]

Would be nice if they stopped always ranking the schools where admission isn't automatic.

Rank schools where the kids go because they're zoned to it. Not because they took a test and got accepted. If they want to rank that way then add Kincaid, St. John, St. Agnes, all of them.

[jdw7337]

Originally Posted by DejaBlue

Would be nice if they stopped always ranking the schools where admission isn't automatic.

Rank schools where the kids go because they're zoned to it. Not because they took a test and got accepted. If they want to rank that way then add Kincaid, St. John, St. Agnes, all of them.

Amen to that, we all know that the schools that control enrollment are great, we would like to know how good all of the regular schools are!

[DejaBlue]

Originally Posted by jdw7337

Amen to that, we all know that the schools that control enrollment are great, we would like to know how good all of the regular schools are!

Exactly!

These rankings are kind of out of whack. It's ranking schools where the students are mostly at risk yet the schools are ones that select the best of the "at risk" and put them in a special school.

"Lyons was one of the rare HISD neighborhood schools - with no application process or admission criteria - to rank in the top 10."

That's not right. It's kind of messing with people's heads. If you're a low income parent, you need to make sure your kids can take a test well so they get into a magnet school. If not, they're screwed going to their zoned school because you can't afford to move.