Best private high schools in the Houston area, ranked by published college outcomes

Which private high schools in the Houston area have the strongest published college outcomes?

Among the 3 private high schools in the Houston area with a counted college list, St. John's School sends the most graduates to the Ivy+ twelve, 31.2 per class year (156 over 5 class years), followed by Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart (Houston) (0.5) and St Francis Episcopal School (0).

How many private high schools in the Houston area publish a college list?

3 of the 83 private high schools in the Houston area publish a college list with counts, 14 publish a list without counts, and 66 publish no list we have read.

Which private high schools in the Houston area are boarding schools?

None of the 83 private high schools in the Houston area is listed as a boarding school by the TABS member directory.

Which private high schools in the Houston area are religiously affiliated?

On the federal Private School Survey, 8 of the 83 private high schools in the Houston area are Catholic, 45 have another religious affiliation and 30 are nonsectarian.

What families are also choosing at a private school

Parents are not only shopping for college outcomes. The tables above count where graduates enrolled, and a high school is also four years of a teenager's days: who they spend them with, what the school asks them to value, and whether the adults know them.

• Community and values fit. A private school sets its own mission and expectations, and the application, the entrance exam and the interview work as a fit signal in both directions. On the federal Private School Survey, 8 of these schools are Catholic, 45 have another religious affiliation and 30 are nonsectarian.
• Class size. Class size is a fair question for each school's admissions office; we hold no student–teacher ratio for the schools listed here.
• Advising. Each private school builds its own college-advising model, so the useful question is how many students each counselor carries and how early the work starts.
• Arts and athletics access. A smaller school can mean more students on each team and in each production; ask each school what participation looks like.

Public schools are a great choice when a family cannot afford a private school, and a published college list is one of the few outcome measures a private school and a public school can be read on side by side.

Every other private high school in the Houston area with a page on Reach (66)

Listed alphabetically. These schools publish no college list we have read; that is all their absence from the tables above means.

School	City	Grades	Affiliation
Al-Hadi School Of Accelerative Learning	Houston	—	Other religious
Arcadia First Baptist Christian School	Santa Fe	—	Other religious
Bay Area Christian School	League City	—	Other religious
Baytown Christian Academy	Baytown	—	Other religious
Bridge Preparatory Academy	Sugar Land	5–12	Other religious
British International School Of Houston	Katy	—	Nonsectarian
Calvary Episcopal Preparatory	Richmond	—	Other religious
Central Christian Academy	Houston	—	Other religious
Chinquapin Preparatory School	Highlands	6–12	Nonsectarian
Covenant Academy	Cypress	—	Other religious
Cunae International School	The Woodlands	—	Nonsectarian
Cypress Christian School	Houston	—	Other religious
Devereux School	League City	7–12	Nonsectarian
Eagle Heights Christian Academy	Pearland	—	Other religious
Elim Christian School	Houston	1–12	Other religious
Faith Christian Academy	Pasadena	—	Other religious
Faith West Academy	Katy	—	Other religious
Fellowship Christian Academy	Sugar Land	—	Other religious
First Baptist Christian Academy	Pasadena	—	Other religious
Founders Christian School	Spring	—	Other religious
Frassati Catholic High School	Spring	9–12	Catholic
Fusion Academy Hs1: Houston Galleria	Houston	6–12	Nonsectarian
Fusion Academy Sug: Sugar Land	Sugar Land	10–12	Nonsectarian
Genesis Christian School	Houston	—	Other religious
Grace Christian Academy	Houston	—	Other religious
Houston Adventist Acadmey	Cypress	—	Other religious
Houston Quran Academy	Houston	—	Other religious
Hua Xia Chinese School	Houston	K–12	Nonsectarian
Humble Christian School	Humble	—	Other religious
Incarnate Word Academy	Houston	9–12	Catholic
Japanese Educational Institute	Houston	—	Nonsectarian
Joyful Sound Christian Academy	Porter	7–12	Other religious
King'S Academy	Houston	—	Other religious
Knile Center Llc	Richmond	1–12	Nonsectarian
Logos Preparatory School	Sugar Land	—	Other religious
Lycee International De Houston	Houston	—	Nonsectarian
Marian High School (Nti Career Institute)	Houston	9–12	Nonsectarian
Memorial Hall School	Houston	10–12	Nonsectarian
Mirus Academy	Katy	8–12	Nonsectarian
Our Redeemer Lutheran North School	Houston	5–12	Other religious
Paradigm Development Center	Houston	5–12	Nonsectarian
Porter Christian Academy	Porter	—	Other religious
Providence Classical School	Spring	—	Other religious
Pueblos Royal Christian School	Pasadena	—	Other religious
River Oaks Academy	Houston	3–12	Nonsectarian
School Of The Woods	Houston	—	Nonsectarian
Shady Acres Christian School	Tomball	—	Other religious
St Catherine'S Montessori	Houston	—	Catholic
St John Xxiii College Prreparatory	Katy	9–12	Catholic
The Banff School	Houston	—	Nonsectarian
The Connection School Of Houston	Cypress	—	Other religious
The Covenant Preparatory School	Kingwood	—	Other religious
The Emery/Weiner Center For Jewish Education	Houston	6–12	Other religious
The Gateway Academy	Houston	6–12	Nonsectarian
The Hub Houston Inc.	Houston	9–12	Nonsectarian
The Momentum Academy	Webster	6–12	Other religious
The Post Oak School	Bellaire	—	Nonsectarian
The Saint Constantine School	Houston	—	Other religious
The Tenney School	Houston	5–12	Nonsectarian
The Williams School Dba Homeschool Academy	Missouri City	3–12	Nonsectarian
The Woodlands Preporatory School	Tomball	—	Nonsectarian
Torah Girls Academy Of Texas	Houston	9–12	Other religious
Van Houston Academy	Houston	1–12	Nonsectarian
Westbury Christian School	Houston	—	Other religious
Westside Baptist Academy	Katy	—	Other religious
Xavier Educational Academy	Houston	5–12	Nonsectarian

Other metros are on the private high schools by metro index. The same arithmetic across every state is the Ivy+ enrollment board; for one college at a time, see which private schools send the most students to each college.

Ivy+ means these twelve: Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University in the City of New York, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, Duke University. A graduate is counted once, at the college the school says they enrolled at; the per-class-year figure is the published total divided by the class years the school's own document covers, and both are shown. A school that is not on this page did not publish a numbered matriculation list we could read — that is all absence means here. It is never a statement about a school's graduates. Lists of acceptances (where students were admitted, not where they enrolled) are never counted in this ranking: an acceptances list runs about three times an enrollment list, so counting the two together would compare different things. Those lists are ranked on their own, separately. Grades and religious affiliation are from the National Center for Education Statistics' Private School Survey. Boarding is read from the TABS member directory — The Association of Boarding Schools' 2026 list of its US member schools — matched onto our school pages by exact or town-confirmed name (173 of them). A school that directory does not list is not called a boarding school on a guess, so it waits for the next directory pass rather than appearing here. A school is listed here when its NCES coordinates fall within 30 miles of the metro's center and it is in TX.