Herod Elementary

Herod is a wonderful elementary school with dedicated teachers and staff that strive to create a well-rounded, creative child. It is a Vangard 'Gifted" Magnet. It is also the home of a great Dual Language curriculum which serves students from K-5th. We started 2013 with 825 students and interest in the school in increasing all the time. Our student population is very international and diverse, just as the city of Houston is. The children are taught to be respectful of each other and learning and trying our best is the focus for each child. We are fortunate that our principal wisely chose to keep all of our specialist classes. We still have P.E., Library, Music, Art and Mind Masters (a class only taught at Herod). Many schools had to cut programs such as these, but Herod was able to keep them and their wonderful staff. Children in the Vangard curriculum are challenged by the curriculum. From Kindergarten on, children are required to give oral presentations of their projects, which helps them with confidence and public speaking. The school also offers a PTO-run Enrichment program and a school operated Extended Day until 5:30 p.m.

Herod is an excellent vanguard school. The MSA review said it is exemplary in the way the teachers team teach. They communicate with each other about how best to plan there curriculum. This does not happen at a lot of other vanguard schools in town. They have a specific reading program that holds the interest of gifted readers more so than the accelerated reader program at most schools. I have not heard a parent of a student there speak of a single bad teacher. We love our son's teacher- we get daily feedback about his progress!! We have friends who had their 2 kids in a private school but enrolled at Herod this year- they're much happier! Herod has excellent after school programs- enrichment class offerings are as good or better than any other area school. This allows your kids to have fun/learn after school and bond with friends who have the same interests and YOU don't have to pick them up and run across town and pay twice as much! We have friends whose kids are in the dual language program which sounds equally strong. Go into the schools, ask a lot of questions, talk to parents of students who attend. That's how you REALLY find out what's going on in a school and what kind of experience you child really will have there.

Many awesome teachers.
Lots of parental involvement.
New school building coming soon.
And my 4th grader ranked Post High
School in the National rankings of
the Stanford testing in almost all
subject areas. (his lowest result was
grade 10.6)
(Proud Mom!)