Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts
Houston · TX · HOUSTON ISD · Public
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- Where graduates go, as the school itself publishes it. Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts publishes where its graduates go (Class of 2026): 92 colleges, including Boston University, Bowdoin College, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University in the City of New York.
- Students here average SAT 1,199 and average ACT 26. Texas publishes each school's own averages; 100% of seniors tested. The national SAT average is about 1,030.
- Course rigor in the top 18% of US high schools. 14 AP courses plus advanced math and lab-science depth — measured against every high school in the country, not just the neighborhood.
Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.
Where graduates go — as published by the school
Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts publishes where its graduates enrolled (Class of 2026): 92 colleges. See the full list ↓
At a glance
- 14 AP courses offered — Elite
- Gifted & talented program
- 2 calculus classes · 9 physics · 10 chemistry
- AP rigor: 82nd percentile nationally
- SAT/ACT participation: 83rd percentile by test-taker volume
- 4-yr grad rate: 100% (2024-25, Texas TAPR)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
Their published matriculation list
Where the Class of 2026 enrolled
Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 92 colleges, in the document's own order.
Ivy+ and most selective · 4
Columbia University in the City of New York · Princeton University · University of Pennsylvania · Yale University
University of California · 1
Other California · 4
Chapman University · University of the Pacific · University of San Diego · University of Southern California
Out of state · 60
American University · Belmont University · Berklee College of Music · Boston University · Bowdoin College · Carnegie Mellon University · Colorado Mountain College · Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art · DePaul University · Fashion Institute of Technology · Fordham University · Hampton University · Howard University · Lone Star College · and 46 more below
Not matched to a college page · 23
Blinn College · Bryan Mawr College · California Lutheran College · CLI Conservatory · East LA College · Glasgow School of Art · Houston City College · Houston Technical Institute · Kansas City Art Institute · Laguna College of Art and Design · Leeds Conservatoire · Manhattan School of Music · Oberlin College & Conservatory of Music · The Boston Conservatory · and 9 more below
Is my kid's college on this list?
The school down the road: Carnegie Vanguard High School
| College | Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts | Carnegie Vanguard High School |
|---|---|---|
| Boston College | — | ✓ named |
| Boston University | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Brown University | — | ✓ named |
| Carnegie Mellon University | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Columbia University in the City of New York | ✓ named | ✓ named |
| Cornell University | — | ✓ named |
| Dartmouth College | — | ✓ named |
| Duke University | — | ✓ named |
| Emory University | — | ✓ named |
| Georgetown University | — | ✓ named |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | — | ✓ named |
| Harvard College | — | ✓ named |
Both schools print names, not counts, so this shows which selective colleges each list names.
All 92 colleges, as the document prints them
and 62 more
These graduates went on to the colleges above.
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Independently verified As published by Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts — School Profile 2026-2027 (Official Kinder HSPVA School Profile 2026-2027) ↗. Found at: Page 4, under the heading "College Matriculations Class of 2026: 184 Seniors".
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Where grads go
Source: TEA/THECB college-enrollment figures. Full Texas Reach detail below.
How Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 18% nationally with 14 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyTX students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: CARNEGIE VANGUARD H S, YATES H S, WASHINGTON B T H S and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
82nd percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2183rd percentile by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Your state's public flagship
The University of Texas at Austin
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $19,857/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Pay for college in Texas
Texas's public scholarships
Texas families have two big levers: a guaranteed-admission rule for the top of each graduating class, and the need-based TEXAS Grant that pairs with it. Class rank does more here than almost anywhere.
Graduate in the top 10% of your Texas public-HS class and finish the required curriculum for automatic admission to TX public universities (UT Austin caps at the top 5%). (Must finish the required college-prep curriculum (Distinguished plan).)
Official program details ↗Texas's flagship need-based grant — no GPA gate to qualify (a 3.0 or top-third rank just gives priority when funds run short). (Enroll within 16 months of HS, ≥¾ time, in a bachelor's program.)
Official program details ↗Graduate at least a semester early with the Distinguished plan plus a 3.0 GPA and an 80th-percentile test (or top-10% rank) for a TEXAS Grant-sized scholarship. (Graduate at least a semester early with the Distinguished plan.)
Official program details ↗Eligibility rules change yearly — confirm with the official program before relying on it. Amounts are recent published figures; awards cover tuition/fees, not housing or books unless noted. Verified 2026-10-21.
🤘 Texas Reach
Where this school's graduates land after high school.
What share of Kinder HSPVA (Houston)'s 2022 graduating class enrolled in college the following fall — and how that splits across Texas higher education. Source-of-truth for college-going at the high-school level in Texas.
Houston ISD performing arts magnet; consistently top-3 ranked TX public HS.
Source: TEA TAPR 2022-23, Domain 4 CCMR + Higher Ed Enrollment. Headline rate is "enrolled in Texas higher ed the following fall." Initial dataset covers a curated set of high-profile TX high schools — full per-school ingest pending the THECB open-records data response.
Graduation & Attendance
Does this school get students to the finish line — and keep them in the building?
Two things every family wants to know: do students graduate on time, and do they show up. These are TEA's official campus figures.
Source: Texas Education Agency, Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR), 2024-25, All Students. Graduation = 4-year longitudinal rate (Class of 2024); attendance & dropout = SY2023-24. TEA masks small-group results for privacy.
College & Career Readiness
How ready are this school's graduates for what comes next?
Beyond graduating, are students prepared — for college, a career, or the military? These are TEA's official readiness measures for the most recent graduating class.
What counts as CCMR-ready? →
Under TEA's accountability system, a graduate counts as College/Career/Military Ready by meeting any one of: a qualifying SAT/ACT or TSI score; AP/IB exam scores of 3+; college dual-credit with a C or better; an associate's degree; an industry-based certification; an OnRamps course; military enlistment; or an aligned career-prep program. It rolls "is this graduate prepared for what's next?" into one comparable number — which is why a school can post a high CCMR even when its average SAT is modest (strong career, military, and dual-credit pathways count too).
Source: Texas Education Agency, Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR), 2024-25, All Students. CCMR / SAT-ACT / AP-IB = Class of 2024 graduates; dual-credit = grades 9-12. School SAT/ACT averages are campus means, not the scores of admitted college applicants. TEA masks small-group results for privacy.
Texas Accountability
TEA's official A–F rating: A (99/100).
The Texas Education Agency's official accountability grade for this campus — a single A–F letter and a 0–100 scaled score the state assigns to every public high school, rolled up from the domains below.
What the A–F domains mean →
Student Achievement — STAAR performance plus, for high schools, college/career/military readiness and graduation. School Progress — academic growth and performance relative to schools with similar economic profiles. Closing the Gaps — outcomes across student groups. TEA awards the campus the better of two methods per domain; the overall grade is the weighted roll-up.
Source: Texas Education Agency, A–F Accountability Ratings (2024-25) via data.texas.gov; the state's official campus rating under Texas Education Code §39.054. Covers every rated Texas public high school.
Texas State Testing
STAAR End-of-Course results: how many students meet grade level.
The share of students scoring Meets Grade Level or above on Texas's high-school End-of-Course exams — the state's core academic-proficiency benchmark, reported for every campus.
What do Approaches / Meets / Masters mean? →
Texas reports STAAR at three rising bars: Approaches (likely to succeed in the next grade with support), Meets (solid command, on track for college/career readiness — the headline number above), and Masters (advanced command). End-of-Course exams are taken when a student finishes the course, so they reflect that subject's instruction, not a single grade.
Source: Texas Education Agency, Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR) STAAR EOC performance, 2024-25, All Students. Small-group results are masked by TEA for privacy and shown only where reported.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2021 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -0.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 782 students:
≈ 7 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $13,316 per student in district revenue, the 7 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $93,212/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARNEGIE VANGUARD H S HOUSTON |
Public | 1.5 | 855 | -6.4% |
| YATES H S HOUSTON |
Public | 2.3 | 685 | -26.5% |
| WASHINGTON B T H S HOUSTON |
Public | 5.2 | 811 | -4.5% |
| ENERGY INSTITUTE H S HOUSTON |
Public | 2.9 | 663 | -4.7% |
| WORTHING H S HOUSTON |
Public | 6.9 | 751 | -8.9% |
| KIPP EAST END H S HOUSTON |
Public · charter | 3.1 | 625 | +94.7% |
| DEBAKEY H S FOR HEALTH PROF HOUSTON |
Public | 4.6 | 929 | +4.3% |
| NORTHSIDE H S HOUSTON |
Public | 1.8 | 1,058 | -20.0% |
At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantKinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts is a public high school in Houston, TX, enrolling 782 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
Enrollment is up 3% from 2021 to 2024.
It offers 14 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 82% of U.S. high schools (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).
277 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 83% of U.S. high schools.
Texas reports 100% of its graduates College, Career or Military Ready and a four-year graduation rate of 100%; its average SAT was 1,199.
It has about 391 students per school counselor.
4% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.
Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the Class of 2026: 92 colleges. Source: School Profile 2026-2027 (Official Kinder HSPVA School Profile 2026-2027).
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named.
Questions families ask
Where do Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts graduates go to college? Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the Class of 2026: 92 colleges. Source: School Profile 2026-2027 (Official Kinder HSPVA School Profile 2026-2027).
How many AP courses does Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts offer? Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts offers 14 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 82% of U.S. high schools (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).
What is Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts's graduation rate? Texas reports 100% of its graduates College, Career or Military Ready and a four-year graduation rate of 100%; its average SAT was 1,199.
How many students attend Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts? Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts is a public high school in Houston, TX, enrolling 782 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
Analysis: Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach, highschoolreach.com). These figures may be quoted with attribution to Test Prep Gurus.
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