Houston Christian High School

This has been a great school for our sophomore. At parent night we were thoroughly impressed with every teacher. There are great extra curricular activities –she’s in choir, theatre, and swimming. We’ve had great counseling sessions to get her thinking of college. She’s very happy at Houston Christian.

My daughter is a senior this year. She has been so happy at HC for the past three years! We are there on a very generous scholarship. Everything is top notch, from the facilities to the wonderful teachers and faculty! I read the previous negative comment from a student that was there 13 years ago, and I couldn’t even believe he was talking about our school! It’s not like that at all! Come and see it for yourself and talk to the administration and meet the students. It is an incredible place to be!

As a former student of this school, I can say without a doubt that there is a sense of privilege in the faculty/​staff, administration, students, and parents. Not everyone is entitled to this at this school. Psychological trauma that I now have to deal with as an adult came as a result from traumatic events in the school.
First though, school policy and operations have led to the following:
There was a major scandal the year after I left in which some of the faculty were found to not have proper certifications to teach in the state after a parent hired a private investigator to investigate one of the teachers.
Athletics are seriously lacking, but that may be more of a product of private schools competing against other private schools. Academics are set to an unusual grading scale that cannot possibly aid the student a the learning environment. Fine arts are incredibly censored, totally missing the point of what art is and how it relates to education.
If you are of any denomination other than Baptist (I was raised Methodist,) be ready to learn only about that denomination and what is wrong with your denomination.
As for personal issues the following were experiences at the school:
A night before a review game, I studied so hard that the next day I was answering every question correctly before anyone else in the class. After a few rounds, the class and the teacher told me that I could not participate because I was doing too well. Now tell me, how does that make your child feel about themselves? Not good is the correct answer.
In the school yearbook (2001 – 2002,) I was left out for reasons that were not made known to me and was not refunded the money I spent for a yearbook.
Above all of this, I was attacked in the hallway by another student for making a comment about him tucking his shirt into his underwear. After being forced to sit through my World History class with my attacker, I went and spoke to the principal at the time, Dr. Estes. The student was put in ISS for a week and then released back into the school. The next year, that same student who attacked me in the hallway was expelled from the school in a football hazing incident that resulted in a freshman being left on the street next to the school totally naked. Had the school dealt with the student in an appropriate manner, I feel that that freshman would have not had to deal with that traumatic event.
If you have suffered from any traumatic events relating to Houston Christian High School, be aware that the statute of limitations in the state of Texas runs out two to four years after any sort of legal recourse relating to psychological and/​or sexual trauma. Delayed discovery of these problems also has some limits on it as well.
So, all in all, this is place is not a college prep school or really a school. It is a religious organization that has chapel once a week that thinks that education should be privatized and turned into a profit. And that, my friends, is even more dangerous.
No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. Matthew 6:24
On a separate note, and something that I think is incredibly important to a school campus is there is NO SCHOOL COUNSELOR. The counselor that they do have is geared towards college admissions and nothing else.

BEWARE! Wolf in sheeps clothing looms on the Sam Houston Tollway. The facility is the best in town. But while they claim to be a Christian school they are not. Far from it. The school leadership is fragmented, lack clarity in direction, right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing. Have a discipline dean of students that rules from a position of fear and has his underground group of kids to help him «weed out the bad souls» while he tries to intimidate every chance he gets. Academically they aspire to be a college prep school but don’t have the infrastructure to support the kids in achieiving. My son was told because he believed in the evolution theory that he was owned by the devil and going to «burn forever in hell» by the zelot religion teacher. The proof is in the turnover, both teachers and facilty. Take a look at the rate of departure of both incoming students and teachers and compare to other schools before you even consider sending a student to this school Don’t be fooled by the beautiful campus that parent dollars via capital campaign builds.

This review is only for the sports facilities, we don’t have kids in this school. My son had a lacroose tournament at this location and I was amazed at the sports areas. First they have an actual lacroose/​soccer field, complete with covered benches, scoreboard and everything. This might not seem like a big deal, except that most of our games are spent in folding chairs on the side line with no idea what the score is!