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Houston’s National Merit Semifinalists for 2020-2021

The 2021 National Merit Scholarship Competition was a great year for Houston-area high school seniors. There were 438 area students who scored in the top 1% on the PSAT to earn the celebrated "Semifinalist" designation. Versus 386 Semifinalists in the previous year, there were [...]

By |September 14, 2020|Categories: Analysis, Featured, Houston's Best Schools|

Houston’s Richest Private Schools by Endowment Value

Of the 15 Houston private schools reporting endowments, the average value is $24 million or $40,000 per student. Assuming schools are able to apply up to 5% of this amount towards annual expenditures, that amounts to $2,000 per student in support provided by their [...]

By |August 14, 2019|Categories: Analysis, Houston's Best Schools, Private Schools|

Best Houston Public High Schools by AP Scores

AP stands for Advanced Placement, which is a national curriculum for very smart high school students administered by the College Board. The College Board is the same non-profit organization that administers the SAT college admissions test. The College Board offers AP curricula in 38 [...]

By |August 13, 2019|Categories: Analysis, FBISD Schools, HISD Schools, Houston's Best Schools, Public Schools, SBISD Schools|

Top Houston Public High Schools by SAT Scores

Together with the ACT, the SAT is one of the most widely administered college admissions tests in the United States; more than 3 million high school students take these tests annually. As such, these scores are among the best to use when comparing the [...]

By |August 13, 2019|Categories: Analysis, FBISD Schools, HISD Schools, Houston's Best Schools, Public Schools, SBISD Schools|

Houston’s Best Public Schools by STAAR Results

The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests are the primary, quantitative measure of academic performance for Texas public schools. All public school students in grades 3-12 take some number of STAAR tests. The tests are administered every spring in core subjects [...]

By |August 12, 2019|Categories: Analysis, FBISD Schools, HISD Schools, Houston's Best Schools, Public Schools, SBISD Schools|

Top Houston Schools by National Merit Semifinalists 2019

A National Merit Semi-Finalists (NMSF) is a high school student who scored in the top 1% of Texans on the PSAT their junior year.​ The number and percentage of awardees is one of the only statistics that is cross-comparable between private and public high [...]

By |August 5, 2019|Categories: Analysis|