DFW and greater Lubbock are over-performing.
Greater Houston is not doing so well at the moment. When Katy is the top school district in the Greater Houston area, you know it's gone way downhill.
Friendswood ("the Wood") has always had good schools. A Quaker town filled with NASA families--in other words, people who care a lot about education. Tomball has come out of nowhere, and I smell over-rated. The Woodlands/Conroe area districts are absent, and I expected some of them to appear on this list. Also, WTF happened to Spring Branch/Houston Memorial--that was the gold standard back in the 70s and 80s...? Who ran them into the ground? I dunno if Kincaid counts as a "district", but if it did, I would expect it on this list.
Northeast ISD in San Antonio: are they not what they used to be?
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