Finding the best schools in Houston can be a daunting task.

I come from a family of educators. Finding the right school for your children is difficult. The school, counselors, principal and teachers make a huge difference on the quality of an education and their life.

The City of Houston has approximately 280 public schools and over 85 private schools. When you also include the Best Houston Suburbs, those numbers jump to approximately 540 public schools and over 120 private ones.

While it’s easy to perform a search like “Best Elementary Schools in Houston,” and come up with names like River Oaks Elementary, West University Elementary or Horn Elementary, it’s much more difficult to find the best school boundary maps that fit your home budget, especially with the size and quality standards your family needs.

Our Guide to Houston’s Best Schools (below) helps you learn about the following.

The top ranked public schools in Houston:

Median home prices within those school boundary maps.

How real estate within those boundary maps performed over the last 10 years.

Best Houston Schools.

Note: this study only covers public schools with defined boundary maps. Public magnet schools, public charter schools, private charter schools and private schools are covered in our other Top Houston School Guide.

Two notable trends from our research were that Houston homes zoned to top ranked schools: