Anyone live in the Kingwood TX area and can give me some insight on the elementary school

Do you mean Kingwood by chance?

Move to The Woodlands

The distances are pretty relative, honestly.

Like a poster said above, Kingwood is in a major flood zone.

BigBerg lives there but unfortunately his probation stipulates he stay 1000 feet from all elementary schools.

Greatschools.org has the answers you're looking for.

Unless you're talking about the elite private schools (inner loop area) or the CHarter schools in the 'hood the Public schools are as good the private.


you're safe in a public school in K'wood, Tomball, Cypress, Katy, Clear Lake, Friendswood etc.

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Kingwood floods. A lot.
Find another area to live

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Saw this thread and came to post exactly this.

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Kingwood did flood during Harvey fairly significantly. However a majority of homes did not .

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We have been in Kingwood since 1995. Wife taught for Humble ISD here in Kingwood for probably 15 years but now teaches in New Caney ISD. My son also graduated from Kingwood HS. My daughter is in 5th grade at Deerwood. She will be at Riverwood next year. Schools are great. Probably some of the best around H-town. My son played football and wrestled. It kinda sucked on that part because back in Monroe, high school football is like a religion. In Kingwood, it is an afterthought. Most of the parents leave the stadium (which is Humble HS's anyway) after the drill team and the band are done at halftime. That shite used to pizz me off so bad but hey, the golf and baseball teams are legit.

We flooded in Fosters Mill in Harvey. We went through all the other flood events without so much as a drop of water on our street. We ended up renovating and selling that house. We now live right off Mills Branch in the back in Greentree. I highly doubt that part of Kingwood will ever flood that bad again but the other area that floods in Kingwood now is the area near where Perry Homes built out and mis-handled the drainage. I would not move over there.

Kingwood is a great location to get to Beaumont. Way better than the Woodlands. Just run the backway out and come out by the FM 1960 bridge and go hit 90 in Dayton. Pretty much a breeze and can be done in about 1 hour with zero traffic.

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Thanks for the information. Do you feel like the Catholic school and public schools(Willow Creek, Shadow forest, Bear Branch) are academically equal in Kingwood? Do you find any schools more welcoming than other schools.

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The biggest factor for academic outcomes is going to be the quality/values of parents. The whole area has one of the lowest crime rates in the Houston metro area, so that helps provide a good learning environment for all area schools. But when looking for elementary and middle schools, also look for areas that do not have apartments zoned to the schools.

The apartment thing will be unavoidable for high school. Either KW HS will still provide a good quality education.

Be aware that the Catholic School does not have the resources to provide the specialized assistance that the public schools do.

The majority of the areas that flooded are areas that were visibly mapped to flood plains. So for long term planning, just move to an area that didn’t flood. This is very easy to do.