Are There Integrated Communities in the Houston Area (Bellaire, Premont: houses, neighborhoods)

[350days]

Hello I recently relocated from Shaker Heights, Ohio to Houston, Texas. The city of Shaker where I moved from was an integrated community predominately black and white, safe, beautiful community with a good school system. 61% of the people who lived there had undergraduate degrees with 30 percent having graduate degrees.

Are there any communities like this in the Houston area?

[Premont]

One way to figure this is to go to a website called Great Schools and examine the racial statistics of different schools. The Houston area is so vast that it can really come down to what neighborhood you live in. You can find nice neighborhoods inside of HISD where the schools are integrated. Schools like Bellaire, Westside and Lamar. I can't really point to just one community though.

[tstone]

Originally Posted by Premont

One way to figure this is to go to a website called Great Schools and examine the racial statistics of different schools.

Yes, do that - but concentrate on elementary schools. A high school will generally serve a very large area, with multiple neighborhoods, possibly in different city limits. Usually there are only a few neighborhoods (or one very large neighborhood) zoned to one elementary school.

And definitely look at income stats as well if you can find them.

[karuna95]

If you go to this forum's main page (Stats about all US cities - relocation info, maps, race, income, photos, education, crime, weather, houses, etc.), you can type in a city, or a zip code, and you will get all sorts of demographic statistics about that geographic area, such as education levels of residents, % of kids in private school, incomes, property taxes paid, race/ethnicity, age, contributions to charity... you get the idea.