Katy ISD (Mission, Spring, Mission Bend: neighborhoods, school district, live)

[crbcrbrgv]

Originally Posted by westres1

I would have to differ. All suburban schools are not pretty good. Some are down right bad. You have to do the research to find the best schools. This would infer Alief or Aldine or Spring are on the same page as Katy or Conroe Isd. That simply is not the case.

Alief is not a suburb. It is a part of Houston.

[baggiegenes]

there is some variation within the district as well. My son went to Exley elementary for a couple of years and the school was good but not spectacular. This year I bought a house and he is now zoned to Kilpatrick which has been outstanding in my opinion. The way I found out was to take my son to the parks zoned to the schools I was interested in on the weekends and talk to other parents. I got some really good information that would have been hard to filter out through rating agencies and testing statistics.

[Supermac34]

If you go to Katy, Klein, Cy-Fair, Tomball, Conroe, Humble, etc, you will have pretty much the same education and have the same chance at college. Ordering them from best to worse at some point becomes nitpicking.

[bostoner]

Originally Posted by Supermac34

If you go to Katy, Klein, Cy-Fair, Tomball, Conroe, Humble, etc, you will have pretty much the same education and have the same chance at college. Ordering them from best to worse at some point becomes nitpicking.

What gets lost in these endless searches for the best school districts is that the best school for your family and child may not be the best for me and mine. I know of a guy who attended schools in Spring and works in a skate shop at age 33. Smart, but never went to college. I know another woman who went to Humble schools and is now attending HCC. I attended high school in a podunk town and wound up at a top 50 university. How well kids do in any school depends on a variety of factors, not the least of which are self-discipline, motivation, and parental involvement. Sending your kid to a so-called great school district is no guarantee of anything if you're not involved, your kid doesn't care, or if he/she falls in with the wrong crowd.

[EasilyAmused]

Originally Posted by houstoner

What gets lost in these endless searches for the best school districts is that the best school for your family and child may not be the best for me and mine. I know of a guy who attended schools in Spring and works in a skate shop at age 33. Smart, but never went to college. I know another woman who went to Humble schools and is now attending HCC. I attended high school in a podunk town and wound up at a top 50 university. How well kids do in any school depends on a variety of factors, not the least of which are self-discipline, motivation, and parental involvement. Sending your kid to a so-called great school district is no guarantee of anything if you're not involved, your kid doesn't care, or if he/she falls in with the wrong crowd.

Isn't that the truth. It's amazing to see the results of kids coming out of inner city Lamar HS. Yet everyone rushes to MPC's all around Houston looking for perfection and insist those schools are better.

[ZeroTX]

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

Alief is not a suburb. It is a part of Houston.

That depends on perspective. There are houses with an Alief, TX address. When the Alief area was built, it was indeed a FAR OUT suburb. My in-laws have a house they bought in 1978, built in 1972, and when they bought it, it was considered to be "out in the boonies." when in fact it's about 1/2 mile outside of Beltway 8. They have their own school district, some areas their own mailing address/post office, etc. In terms of its suburb-ness I don't see how it's any less of a suburb than Clear Lake (also part of the City of Houston) or Kingwood (part of the City of Houston), Spring Branch (also part of the City of Houston), Aldine (many of Aldine's schools and homes still feel very isolated from the city), or even parts of Spring which have been annexed for the tax money. In fact, as a former resident of Spring, I was always sweating bullets that Houston would annex the area. Thankfully they have only (so far) annexed commercial property (more tax base).

[EasilyAmused]

Spring Branch is inside the Beltway. It's not a burb. Neither is Alief. They are neigborhoods. Just because you have your own school district within Houston, doesn't make you a burb.

And anything west of Voss Road in the 70's was considered the Boonies. The "Beltway" was a single lane road at the time.

[ZeroTX]

So what exactly are the criteria for being a suburb now-a-days? Go out to the middle (not the edges) of Alief, such as out in Mission Bend, and try to commute into downtown and tell me that's not a suburb

[nirem]

Katy ISD has been great for my daughter, for my son with special needs it has been a nightmare.

[JulieFuelling]

I've sold homes in Cinco since early 1990's. A great majority choose it for the schools which are always rated some of the top in the state. If you stay on the south side of the freeway, you can't go wrong. (Take this from a Realtor who lives, stuck in my house, on the north side.)