This is a list of schools operated by the Houston Independent School District.

In the district, grades kindergarten through 5 are considered to be elementary school, grades 6 through 8 are considered to be middle school, and grades 9 through 12 are considered to be senior high school. Some elementary schools go up to the sixth grade.

Every house in HISD is assigned to an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school. HISD has many alternative programs and transfer options available to students who want a specialized education and/or dislike their home schools.

Current schools EE-12 schools

Thomas Horace Rogers School (alternative school) is part Vanguard school (K-8), part school for the deaf (K-8), and part school for multiply impaired children (K-12).

EE-8 schools Traditional: Gregory Lincoln Education Center (zoned school) (Houston)

Alternative: Briarmeadow Charter School (HISD charter school) (Houston) Named after the Briarmeadow community,"Elementary/Middle School Combinations." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on November 6, 2018. it was created in 1997, with 125 students, to relieve Piney Point and three other elementary schools. Briarmeadow Charter at one time rented space at the Post Oak YMCA, with students using an area library and the cafeteria of T.H. Rogers School. It moved into a permanent facility, with the school building being former manufacturing warehouse, with room for 550 pupils, in 2001; the building had a value of $10 million, funded by the Rebuild 2002 bond, and its second floor had of space. The classrooms are in groups with a common area linking them. The building's facilities include a cafeteria equipped with a stage and designated for multiple purposes, a fine art studio with a separate entry area and an attached music studio with high-acoustic capabilities, two computer laboratories, a library, a multimedia room, a music studio, two language laboratories, and a science laboratory. Athletic fields, a nature area, and playgrounds use an outdoor area with of space. HISD had plans to use the second floor as administrative offices. It had 220 students in June 2001, increasing to 350 by September of that year.

PK-8 schools

Baker Montessori School (formerly Woodrow Wilson Montessori School, PK3 through 6 zoned, PK3-8 Montessori and fine arts magnet) (Houston) Serves sections of Neartown, including parts of Montrose"Wilson K-8 Attendance Zone ." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on December 9, 2016. Garden Oaks K-8 School (Houston) (zoned for K-5, magnet for K-8) Serves most of Garden Oaks and a section of Oak Forest"Garden Oaks K-8 Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on December 9, 2016. Thomas J. Pilgrim Academy (zoned school) (Houston) The school was built in 1957, on the sesquicentennial of the birth of Thomas J. Pilgrim, and opened as Thomas J. Pilgrim Elementary School."History" (Archive). Thomas J. Pilgrim Academy. Retrieved on November 29, 2015. In 2006 it began adding middle school grades,Mellon, Ericka. "Despite the odds, Pilgrim Academy hits the mark" (Archive). Houston Chronicle. Monday April 18, 2011. Retrieved on November 29, 2015. and in 2007 it changed its name to its current one and moved into its current location. Principal Alma Salman arranged to have middle school grades added so the school could have more time to increase student performance so it meets their grade levels. As of 2011 85% of the students at Pilgrim are low income, and about 66% of students who are new to Pilgrim have limited proficiency of English, with Spanish and Arabic being the most common native languages. As of 2011 250 students are in grades 6–8. In 2011 Children at Risk ranked the Pilgrim middle school as the best comprehensive middle school program in Houston. Wharton Dual Language Academy (Houston, elementary zoned, K-8 magnet) Serves sections of Neartown, including parts of Montrose"Wharton K-8 Attendance Zone ." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on December 9, 2016.

Carter G. Woodson K-8 Center in Houston formerly had PK-8; since 2018 is now has PK-5."AGENDA Board of Education Meeting May 10, 2018." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on October 12, 2018. F1 p. 90/135. Middle school students were rezoned to Albert Thomas Middle. Ericka Mellon of the Houston Chronicle stated in 2015 that Woodson K-8 "performs well below the district average" although most Texas accountability test scores for the school increased during the period 2013–2014. In 2015 Children at Risk ranked Woodson K-8 an "F".

K-8 schools Billy K. Reagan K-8 Educational Center (zoned) (opening in the 2010s)"New Schools to Be Named After Former Superintendent and U.S. Judge ." Houston Independent School District. January 14, 2009. The Rice School (La Escuela Rice in Spanish, Houston) (alternative)

Secondary schools 6-12 schools Harper Alternative School (Houston) (alternative school) Jane Long Academy (Houston) - has a middle school with an attendance boundary, and an alternative high school Sharpstown International School (Houston) (magnet school)

High schools All high schools are in the city of Houston unless otherwise noted.

Stephen F. Austin High School (1936) Bellaire High School (1955), in the city of Bellaire Carnegie Vanguard High School (2002) César E. Chávez High School (2000) Ebbert L. Furr High School (1961) Heights High School (2016–present) Sam Houston Math, Science, & Technology Center (1878) Kashmere High School (1957) Mirabeau B. Lamar High School (1936) James Madison High School (1965) Charles H. Milby High School (1926) North Forest High School (2008) Northside High School (2016–present) Scarborough High School (1968) Sharpstown High School (1968) Ross Shaw Sterling High School (1965) Stephen P. Waltrip High School (1959) Booker T. Washington High School (1893) Westbury High School (1961) Westside High School (2000) Phillis Wheatley High School (1927) Margaret Long Wisdom High School (2016–present) Evan E. Worthing High School (1958) Jack Yates High School (1926)

Other high schools All schools are in the city of Houston unless otherwise noted.

UIL ranking Accelerated Learning And Transition Academy (ALTA) - closed May 2008 Challenge Early College High School Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions National Blue Ribbon School award winner in 1997-98 National Blue Ribbon School award winner in 2003 East Early College High School Eastwood Academy Energy Institute High School HCC Life Skills Program Houston Academy for International Studies Barbara Jordan High School High School for Law and Justice (formerly High School for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice) Liberty High School (formerly Newcomer Charter High School) Middle College High School-Felix Fraga Middle College High School-Gulfton North Houston Early College High School Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) 2005 National Blue Ribbon School South Early College High School

Middle schools Crispus Attucks Middle School (Houston) Serves Sunnyside and sections of South Park"Attucks Middle School Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on December 7, 2016. Circa 2019 over 40% of the teachers in each school year are not present in the following school year. Frank Black Middle School (Houston) Serves sections of Oak Forest and Garden Oaks"Black Middle School Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on December 7, 2016. Luther Burbank Middle School (Houston) Burbank High School opened in 1927. The school was converted into a junior high school and received a new building in 1949. Burbank received a Vanguard magnet school program in 1979; it had been moved from Terrell Junior High. In the 1980s the grade configuration changed from grades 7–9 to 6–8, and the name was changed to Burbank Middle School."History." Burbank Middle School. Retrieved on January 6, 2017. In 1996 most of the students were from recent immigrants, and 87% of the students were Hispanic. The large number of immigrant students prompted the school to start special classes for bilingual students. By then the school held parent-teacher meetings in Spanish as well as English. Previously the school only had a summary of each meeting in Spanish, but as a result participation from Hispanophone parents was low. Ruby Sue Clifton Middle School (Houston) Serves sections of Oak Forest"Black Middle School Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on December 7, 2016. Ezekiel W. Cullen Middle School (Houston) Serves the Third Ward"Cullen Middle School Attendance Zone ." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on December 7, 2016. James S. Deady Middle School (Houston) Serves sections of the East End"Deady Middle School Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on December 7, 2016. Deady's student body became a majority of racial and ethnic minorities in the early 1980s.San Miguel, Guadalupe. Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston (Volume 3 of University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies, Sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies). Texas A&M University Press, October 26, 2005. , 9781585444939. CITED: p. 219. Thomas A. Edison Middle School (Houston) Serves Magnolia Park and other areas in the East End Lamar Fleming Middle School (Houston) Serves a section of the Fifth Ward"Fleming Middle School Attendance Boundary." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on December 7, 2016. Walter W. Fondren Middle School (Houston) Serves sections of Fondren Southwest, Maplewood South–North, a part of Maplewood, and a small part of Meyerland"Fondren Middle School Attendance Zone." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on December 7, 2016. In 2015 Children at Risk ranked this school as "F". Richard H. Fonville Middle School] (Houston) Forest Brook Middle School (Houston) The building opened in 1972 as Forest Brook High School."Chapter 5 FACILITIES USE AND MANAGEMENT NORTH FOREST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT." () Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Retrieved on November 21, 2011. The purpose of the building changed after the 2008 merger of Forest Brook with M. B. Smiley High School.KHOU.com staff. "North Forest ISD to merge Smiley, Forest Brook High; Tidwell, Hillard Elementary ." KHOU-TV. Sunday March 16, 2008. Retrieved on August 16, 2009. Forest Brook Middle School became a part of HISD during the merger with the North Forest Independent School District on July 1, 2013. When HISD assumed control, the facilities were in a damaged state, 30-40% of students were habitually late to school, and 75-80% of students performed below grade level. Rick Fernandez became principal in 2013, and Tannisha Gentry, his assistant, succeeded him when he left to become principal of North Forest High School in 2015. Fernandez and Gentry changed the school uniforms, posted teachers in areas where students may hide, and penalized truancy with lunch detentions. Gentry added a study period and added one hour to the instructional day. Hurricane Harvey, in 2017, damaged the building and displaced students from nearby neighborhoods. By November 2017 80 students were not in attendance. Alexander Hamilton Middle School (Houston) Serves much of the Houston Heights and a section of Independence Heights"Hamilton Middle School Attendance Boundary." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on December 7, 2016. Hamilton previously had the Indians as a mascot, but in 2014 it adopted a new mascot, the Huskies, due to controversies over Native American naming. Charles Hartman Middle School (Houston) Serves Garden Villas"Hartman Middle School Attendance Boundary." Houston Independent School District. Retrieved on December 7, 2016. Patrick Henry Middle School (Houston) James Hogg Middle School (Houston)