Alief ISD

[Vicman]

I know it is an old thread - but HISD does allow inter-district transfers, so it is possible for Royal Oaks residents to send their children to HISD schools. The question is how easily this can be done.

Originally Posted by TheHammer

With all due respect to the long-time posters on this forum... Why the hell the 'discussions' about public school OPTIONS for Royal Oaks??
Simply, there aren't any. Residents of Royal Oaks have NO public option. If elementary age, they go to 'Outley'. If intermediate, they go to 'Budewig'.
If the parents don't like either of those... they MUST opt for private school.

Who cares about Westside HS, Westbriar Middle School, Revere, or Askew Elementary?? They are NOT in the District and are NOT available to Royal Oaks residents!! Not an option!!
The subject of this thread IS 'Alief ISD', isn't it??

[Vicman]

I know it's an old post... but i think commenting on this will help people looking through old C-D posts for info about West Briar (and they may not necessarily pay attention to the dates). I thought I would clarify something.

The attendance boundaries indicate that the HISD part of the Westchase District is actually zoned to Revere Middle (this was also true at the time of the post!). http://www.houstonisd.org/cms/lib2/T.../Revere_MS.pdf - Westchase District map: Find It Map - Westchase District - The West Briar zone: http://www.houstonisd.org/cms/lib2/T...t_Briar_MS.pdf - Archived map to show this was true in the past: http://web.archive.org/web/200902270...s/RevereMS.pdf - However the kids in the Revere zone do have the option of transferring to West Briar: School Profile & Leadership / School Profile & Leadership - I don't know how many do it, but I imagine at least some of them do

As for whether an upper middle class parent would tolerate a student body being 33% poor/heavily minority, HISD board member Donald McAdams wrote in the 1990s that upper middle class 'rents typically tolerate high percentages of those students at middle and high school levels as the kids are tracked by ability: https://books.google.ca/books?id=4eY4cg07-CAC&pg=PA59

School administrators knew the magic numbers. A white, middle-class community would support an elementary school that was up to 50 percent minority. For middle and high schools, which grouped classes somewhat by ability, the minority enrollment could exceed 70 percent.

Originally Posted by LizzySWW

Yes! So, over a third of the student body at West Briar Middle is a poor urban kid living in an apartment in the Westchase District. What got things going down this path was someone wondering if Royal Oaks parents would like to use this school for their children, who are used to wealthy private schools. West Briar's bad stats won't float their boat. It may be a better school that the Alief middle counterpart you mention, but these parents aren't going to notice the diff.

The only online video of the school (aside from parents filming some cheerleaders) is of some AA kids dancing to a song about murder. Lovely. Dancing to a song about murder isn't my idea of kids trying to be edgy.

[rigas]

Originally Posted by Vicman

I know it is an old thread - but HISD does allow inter-district transfers, so it is possible for Royal Oaks residents to send their children to HISD schools. The question is how easily this can be done.

id be surprised if any royal oaks residents have kids in public schools at all.

i have several friends that live there and not a single one of their kids go to public school.

[Vicman]

Originally Posted by rigas

id be surprised if any royal oaks residents have kids in public schools at all.

i have several friends that live there and not a single one of their kids go to public school.

They're in Alief ISD now, and a board member who lived in Royal Oaks said in 2008 that almost nobody there did Royal Oaks residents protest plan to raise property tax - Houston Chronicle

Said Alief ISD Trustee John Hansen, who lives in Royal Oaks but opposes the committee’s campaign, “It’s by far the most expensive real estate in the Alief school district and very few of the children attend Alief ISD schools.”

[Noelstreet]

Originally Posted by heyker

Hi!
We are currently looking at some new homes in 77083 zip code and noticed that they fall into the Alief school district. So I am looking for info about the school district the good and the bad. Are there other school districts nearby that someone can recommend if not this one? I have a new job in the area and would love to avoid a long commute. Thank you for any information you have!

We have kids in high school middle school and elementary.

I know about Elementary and High School in the district you are looking into. Unfortunately I know nothing about you, it is enough to say that I am an educator. That being said "Be careful."

[Vicman]

The original post is from 2009. Having said that this is good advice for potential Alief ISD house shoppers in 2017.

Originally Posted by Noelstreet

I know about Elementary and High School in the district you are looking into. Unfortunately I know nothing about you, it is enough to say that I am an educator. That being said "Be careful."