
The Spring Independent School District serves over 32,000 prekindergarten through twelfth-grade students in a diverse and growing district located 20 miles north of downtown Houston in a suburban area of Harris County that spans 57 square miles. The Districts ethnic breakdown is 38.45 percent African American, 35.9 percent Hispanic, 20.6 percent white, 4.8 percent Asian and Pacific Islander and 0.2 percent Native American.
The District has a total of 31 campuses, which includes three high schools, a high-school career academy, a ninth-grade center, six sixth- through eighth-grade middle schools, one prekindergarten through second-grade primary school, one third-through fifth-grade intermediate school, and 18 prekindergarten through fifth-grade elementary schools.
Spring ISDs student-to-teacher ratio is 22 to 1 for prekindergarten through fourth grade and 25 to 1 for fifth- through twelfth-grades. The District offers half-day prekindergarten classes for qualified four-year olds, full-day kindergarten, bilingual and English as a Second Language programs, gifted and talented programs and honors and Advanced Placement classes.
There are 186 square miles of land within the boundaries of Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. This makes it the second largest school system in land area out of the 22 districts in Harris County. Bordered by seven other school districts—Houston, Spring Branch, Katy, Klein, Aldine, Tomball and Waller—it is also the second largest district in terms of student enrollment. There are more than 96,000 students enrolled in CFISD for the 2007- 2008 school year—second only to Houston ISD. CFISD is home to more than 780 subdivisions and apartment complexes within its borders. There are a number of industries within district borders, including international corporations and a number of small factories and plants.
The Tomball Indpenendent School District encompasses 83 square miles in northwest Harris County and southwest Montgomery County and is located approximately 30 miles from downtown Houston. The district currently educates over 9,000 students at 12 campuses. The ethnic distribution in 2005-2006 was 71.5 percent Anglo, 18.3 percent Hispanic, 6.7 percent African American, 3.1 percent Asian, and 0.4 percent Native American.
Conroe Independent School District is one of the fastest growing school districts in the nation. Currently CISD has over 46,500 students and 5,500+ full time employees and is projected to be home to more than 53,000 students by the year 2012. Meeting the needs of the District’s continued growth is a top priority for CISD as evidenced by the passage of a $279,931,838 bond referendum in September 2004.