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What's the vibe like in the hallways at KINDER H S FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS right now?
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Enrollment
782
High
DISTRICT 995 · STATE 796
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOUSTON ISD·NCES 482364002552
Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts
790 AUSTIN ST, HOUSTON, TX 77002 · (713) 942-1960 · Harris County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL782 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Texas public high schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public high schools
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
181 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 217 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 189 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 192 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 184 | 24% |
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
96.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +3.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
93.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +33.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 96 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 93 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 3 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 33 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 47.0% | 49.0% | 2.0% | 2.0% |
| Mathematics | 45.0% | 48.0% | 7.0% | 0.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 96.0% | 93.0% |
| 2024-25 | 95.0% | 88.0% |
| 2023-24 | 96.0% | 77.0% |
| 2022-23 | 45.0% | N/A |
| 2021-22 | 89.0% | 63.0% |
| 2020-21 | 93.0% | 60.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
90.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 91% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts
Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts's state test result (90.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts this school | 782 | 23.1% | 90.9% |
| Nyos Lamar Secondary AUSTIN | 809 | 30.0% | 56.8% |
| Rrisd Early College High School ROUND ROCK | 364 | 24.5% | 81.3% |
| Hendrickson High School PFLUGERVILLE | 2,128 | 24.1% | 73.1% |
| Vines High School PLANO | 1,009 | 32.7% | 56.0% |
| Ischool High at University Park HOUSTON | 433 | 32.8% | 67.4% |
Matched among Texas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 90.9% | #17 of 1,385 | #6 of 150 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #9 of 1,425 ▲ 6 | #2 of 155 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 96.0% | #27 of 1,425 ▲ 3 | #6 of 155 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 782 | #697 of 2,107 | #106 of 223 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #950 of 1,344 | #75 of 157 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.0% | #23 of 1,346 | #2 of 157 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.1% | #1,429 of 1,522 | #170 of 175 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.9% | #538 of 672 | #53 of 64 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
782
-15 (-2%) vs 2020
+17% since 1990-91, when it was 666
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 16.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 782 | 48.4 | 16.2:1 | 23% (181) |
| 2023-24 | 769 | 48.7 | 15.8:1 | 22% (168) |
| 2022-23 | 786 | 48.7 | 16.1:1 | 16% (126) |
| 2020-21 | 797 | 48 | 16.6:1 | 17% (136) |
| 2017-18 | 753 | 46.2 | 16.3:1 | 19% (141) |
| 2015-16 | 723 | 46 | 15.7:1 | 17% (121) |
| 2010-11 | 655 | 43 | 15.2:1 | 13% (82) |
| 2000-01 | 656 | 37 | 17.7:1 | 8% (54) |
| 1990-91 | 666 | 36 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (753 to 782); teachers up 5% (46.2 to 48.4).
About Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts
Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts is a medium-sized high school serving families in HOUSTON, Texas. It covers grades 9 through 12, with a total enrollment of 782 students.
Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts is part of a district of 273 schools: HOUSTON ISD, with 176,727 students.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts is White (32%). Smaller groups are 30% Hispanic, 19% Black, 11% Asian, and 7% multiracial. For comparison, Harris County is about 34% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 75%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.2:1 at Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts, with 48.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 15.1:1 average for high schools in Texas is lower than this school's figure. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 23%. On average, public schools in Harris County report 70%.
Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 99% of Texas public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts is in the top 10% of Texas schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 63.8%. The school's actual rate is 90.9%, 27.1 points higher.
Across Harris County, median household income is about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 13%. The public schools of Harris County number 1,205 and enroll about 886,911.
Nearest public school: Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, about 0.3 miles away. The five-mile area around Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 29.5% on proficiency, and Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts is above that at 90.9%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts was 797 in 2020-21 and 782 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
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Other schools in HOUSTON
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- Elsik High SchoolHigh · 4,057 students
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Hastings High SchoolHigh · 3,786 students
- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Nearby schools
- Harris County Juvenile Detention Center0.3 mi · 165
- Baylor College of Medicine Biotech Academy at Rusk1.0 mi · 325
- A+ Unlimited Potential - University1.1 mi · 156
- A+up High School1.1 mi · 47
- Elevate Collegiate1.1 mi · 192
- Bruce Elementary School1.3 mi · 285
Frequently asked questions
About Kinder H S for Performing and Visual ArtsHow many students attend Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts?
Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts enrolls approximately 782 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts serve?
Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts is approximately 16.2:1 (48 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts?
At Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts, the student body is approximately 32% White, 30% Hispanic, 19% Black, 11% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts public or private?
Kinder H S for Performing and Visual Arts is a public K-12 school, overseen by HOUSTON ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.