Houston Isd
Houston, TX · 273 schools · 189,934 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Houston Isd has 273 schools serving 189,934 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 36%. The average graduation rate is 71%.
Houston Isd operates 273 public schools, including Texas Connections Academy at Houston, Bellaire H S, Lamar H S, Westside H S, Houston Math Science and Technology Center and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Houston Isd is approximately 71% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Houston Isd is Texas Connections Academy at Houston with 8,967 students.
Houston Isd serves 189,934 students across 273 schools in TX, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Houston Isd's average proficiency rate of 36% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is below average and may indicate room for improvement. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Houston Isd to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.