One street address, three zones, and the body behind each figure
The Huntingdon Schools by the Numbers: the Three Campuses Zoned to 2121 Kirby Drive
Updated September 2026
Which Houston ISD campuses is a home at The Huntingdon zoned to, and what have the state and a national nonprofit published about each one?
The district's own maps for the 2026-2027 school year, read on 18 September 2026, give this building one campus at each level, River Oaks Elementary, Lanier Middle School and Lamar High School, and the 2026 letters the state published for all three are preliminary ones, final on 11 December 2026 and open to change after an audit.
Paige Martin, Houston Properties Team, The Huntingdon
Source: Texas Education Agency, 2026 Statewide Multi-Year Ratings Spreadsheet, September 2026.
Which campuses does Houston ISD's own map return for 2121 Kirby Drive?
Houston ISD publishes an attendance zone for every campus, a shape on the map whose addresses belong to that campus, and it draws them a level at a time: elementary zones in one layer, middle school zones in a second, high school zones in a third, every layer named for the 2026-2027 school year. At this building's street address, read on 18 September 2026, each of the three holds exactly one campus. They are River Oaks Elementary, whose own address the layer gives as 2008 Kirby Drive, then Lanier Middle School on Woodhead Street, then Lamar High School on Westheimer Road.
A fourth layer, the district's feeder pattern, prints a chain of campuses rather than one level at a time, and for this point it reads River Oaks ES, then Lanier MS, then Lamar HS. That is the district's own shorthand for the three campuses above, published separately from them, so the four layers agree with one another here.
Every home in the tower shares one street address, so this is the building's answer rather than a different answer floor by floor. What settles it for one home is the district: Houston ISD answers for a single address through its own School Navigator lookup and in writing, and no address was put through that lookup for this page, so the campuses above are what the published maps show for 2121 Kirby Drive.
Who publishes each figure in the table, and what does it measure?
The Texas Education Agency rates districts and campuses on a single overall letter from A to F. Its explanation of the method, read September 2026, names three domains behind the letter, Student Achievement, School Progress and Closing the Gaps, and says a campus letter measures what students are learning in each grade, whether they are ready for the grade after it, and how well the campus prepares them for what follows high school.
A letter belongs to a year rather than to a campus permanently, because the agency publishes the method one year at a time in a rating manual of its own: the page cited above sends a reader to a 2026 manual for the technical detail behind these letters, and to a 2027 manual for the agency's most current method. Houston ISD's own letter for 2026 is a B, out of the same statewide file the three campus letters below come from.
The second figure in the table belongs to GreatSchools, a national nonprofit whose profile for a campus opens with a number between 1 and 10. Its own account of that number, updated 11 May 2026 and read in September 2026, sets the scale against the other campuses in the same state, warns that the number is no percentage and no report-card mark, and reads the middle of the scale as a campus sitting level with the state average. Two conditions come with that number. The nonprofit says it assigns ratings rather than ranking one campus against another, and it builds the number out of as many as three themed ratings, the number of them depending on the campus's grade levels and the data available, each weighted by the research behind that measure and by how much data there is.
The rows below are alphabetical by campus name, which is the only order this page puts them in, and each row holds two separate readings of one campus, taken by two bodies on two scales, each carrying its own date. The figures out of 10 came off the profiles the nonprofit keeps for River Oaks Elementary, for Lanier Middle School and for Lamar High School, all three read on 18 September 2026.
One more body publishes something about a campus, and it names none of these three: the U.S. Department of Education's cumulative list of the schools it recognized from 1982 through 2019, its four annual lists after that and its 2024 awardees, the last cohort it has published, carry no entry naming River Oaks Elementary, Lanier Middle School or Lamar High School.
| Campus | Level | State letter for 2026 | Figure out of 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamar High School | High school | B | 6 |
| Lanier Middle School | Middle school | A | 10 |
| River Oaks Elementary | Elementary | A | 10 |
Are the state's 2026 letters final?
No, and the agency has published the dates on which they will be. The agency's own 2026 appeals timeline, read September 2026, puts the preliminary release and the opening of appeals on one day, 12 August 2026, and the deadline at 5pm on 11 September 2026. The final ratings follow on 11 December 2026, which the timeline gives as the update where the outcome of every appeal is reflected.
The same timeline puts one more condition on every figure in that file, and it outlives December.
Ratings and year counts are subject to change due to the results of an audit, compliance review, or investigation.
Does a home at this address have to apply to any of the three campuses?
The zone is one door into a Houston ISD campus, and the district keeps a second one open. On its School Choice pages, read September 2026, it calls itself an open-enrollment district of choice, and it takes one application from a student who wants a campus outside the zone, or a specialized academic program somewhere else in the district.
Each of the three carries magnet programming, and the district sorts such campuses into three types whose own definitions decide who applies for what. Its magnet page, read September 2026, lists River Oaks Elementary, Lanier Middle and Lamar High under the same one, School Within a School, and defines it this way.
An application then runs on the district's own conditions. Its eligibility page, read September 2026, puts an entrance requirement on some programs, gives an application holding priority status a higher ranking in the lottery, and offers sibling priority at the three entering grades, kindergarten, sixth and ninth, to a family whose child is already enrolled at the campus applied to and returning the following year.
School Within a School (SWS) - Zoned and non-zoned students must apply to access this specialty programming. Zoned students do not need to apply to their zoned school to access the general education program.
What do the district's own grade fields say about pre-kindergarten at River Oaks Elementary?
One record behind this page disagrees with itself. The elementary layer carries two grade fields for each zone, one for the grades a campus teaches and one for the grades zoned to it, and at River Oaks Elementary the two do not match: pre-kindergarten is in the second and missing from the first. Both fields are Houston ISD's, sitting in one record, read on 18 September 2026.
Nothing here resolves that, and a page choosing one field over the other would be inventing the district's answer. Where pre-kindergarten is the question that decides a purchase, put it to the district and ask for the campus and the grade in the same reply.
The same layer holds a notes field that can attach a choice of campus to a zone. It is filled in on two of the district's 156 elementary zones, and both of those carry one note about a choice offered in another part of Houston, so no layer over this address offers a second campus at any level.
Grades EE, KG, 1-5, Zoned_Grade EE, PK, KG, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
What should you ask the district before an offer?
Write to the district about the home rather than about the tower: give the street address with its unit number and say which school year the question is about. Ask for all three levels at once, ask how recently that answer was checked, and ask whether any boundary work is planned for the year you named, because a zone can be redrawn between one year and the next.
The layers behind that answer carry dates of their own. These three were made in February 2026 and last edited in July 2026, and the district keeps earlier sets online beside them, so what holds for 2026-2027 says nothing about the year after it. File the district's reply with the resale certificate and the appraisal account, and a seller gains by asking early, since the first buyer will raise it anyway.
What can this page not tell you?
Which campus the district will confirm for one home here. Nothing on this page was looked up address by address, and the district's own reply is what settles it.
Whether the 2026 letters hold. December's release is the final one, and an audit, a compliance review or an investigation can still move a letter afterwards.
What Houston ISD makes of the accuracy of its own maps, because the district says nothing about it. No accuracy statement, no license and no disclaimer appears on the layer, on the service behind it or on the item that publishes it, so this page invents none for the district, in either direction.
Anything about the people at these campuses. Each body publishes enrollment counts and student-group breakdowns beside the figures above, and none of that was taken.
Whether an application would get in. The district settles that in its own lottery, under its own priorities and entrance requirements, inside its own window.
What either number means for a home on one floor of this tower. The page carries a figure, the body that issued it and the year, and it puts no campus above another and reads no direction into a number.
Questions & answers
The Huntingdon questions, answered
Which schools is The Huntingdon zoned to?
Houston ISD's three attendance-zone maps for the 2026-2027 school year, read on 18 September 2026, each hold one campus at 2121 Kirby Drive: River Oaks Elementary at the elementary level, Lanier Middle School at the middle level, Lamar High School at the high school level. The district's fourth layer, its feeder pattern, prints those same three for this point and in that order.
Every home in the tower shares one street address, so the answer above is the building's rather than one floor's. It is still read off a published map instead of given for a particular home, and the district is the body that gives it: put the address into Houston ISD's own School Navigator lookup, then get the campus at all three levels confirmed in a written reply and file that with the purchase paperwork. The maps are republished a school year at a time, so an answer covering one year promises nothing about the next.
Are the state's 2026 letters for these campuses final?
Not yet. Those letters came out in preliminary form on 12 August 2026, appeals opened the same day and shut at 5pm on 11 September 2026, and the Texas Education Agency publishes the final set on 11 December 2026. Anything printed before that date carries the August reading rather than the agency's settled answer for the year.
One condition outlasts December. The agency's own appeals timeline lets a rating and its year count move afterwards on an audit, a compliance review or an investigation, which makes a letter a record of one day's publication rather than a verdict on a school year. For the current letter on any of these three campuses, read the agency's own publication after the December release rather than a page that printed an earlier one, this site's page included.
Where do the figures beside each campus on this site come from?
From two bodies, and the page that prints them links each one beside its own figure. The letter comes out of the Texas Education Agency's 2026 statewide ratings file, taken in September 2026. The figure out of 10 comes off a national nonprofit's profile for the campus, read on 18 September 2026, and all three of those profiles carry the date 29 May 2026.
Each body publishes more than the one number, and the rest was left where it sits. The state's file holds domain ratings and distinction designations; the nonprofit's profiles hold themed ratings, a review score, enrollment and student-group counts. None of that appears on this site. The two scales are built differently, so a letter and a figure out of 10 are two readings of one campus rather than the same reading twice, and neither of them says anything about a home inside this tower.
Do I have to apply to the campuses this address is zoned to?
Not for the general education program at a zoned campus. All three campuses zoned to 2121 Kirby Drive also carry magnet programming, and Houston ISD lists each of them as a School Within a School, the type where zoned and non-zoned students alike apply to reach the specialty programming while a zoned student needs no application for the zoned school itself.
The district also runs a route that has nothing to do with the zone. It describes itself as an open-enrollment district of choice and takes one application for campuses beyond the zoned one and for specialized academic programs elsewhere in the district. Where an application is needed, the district's eligibility page puts an entrance requirement on some programs, gives applications holding priority status a higher ranking in its lottery, and offers sibling priority at kindergarten, sixth and ninth grade to a family whose child is already enrolled at the campus applied to and returning the following year.
Does the elementary campus zoned to this building take pre-kindergarten?
Houston ISD's own record disagrees with itself on that point. In the district's elementary boundary layer, read on 18 September 2026, the field listing the grades River Oaks Elementary teaches leaves pre-kindergarten out, while the field listing the grades zoned to it puts pre-kindergarten in. Both fields sit in one record published by one body.
This site prints both fields and resolves neither, because picking one would be inventing an answer the district has not given. Where pre-kindergarten matters to a purchase here, ask Houston ISD directly and ask for the campus and the grade in the same written reply. The state's own file lists the campus as serving kindergarten through fifth grade, which is a third body's reading of the same question and not the district's answer for a child.
How do I confirm which campus a home at The Huntingdon is zoned to?
Put it to Houston ISD in writing, about one home rather than about the tower: the street address with its unit number, and the school year the question is about. Ask for the campus at all three levels together, ask how recently the district checked that answer, and ask whether boundary work is planned for the year you named.
File the reply where the rest of the address-level paperwork lives, beside the resale certificate and the appraisal account. Asking early pays for a seller as well, since the first buyer raises the question anyway and a written answer from the district closes it faster than anyone's memory does. The boundary layers carry dates of their own, made in February 2026 and last edited in July 2026, with earlier sets still published beside them, so the school year is part of the question and part of the answer.