Have a friend who works at Klein Cain, and from what I have heard that is definitely ALREADY hood.

redag06 said:

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Have a friend who works at Klein Cain, and from what I have heard that is definitely ALREADY hood.

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African American 153 10.93 %
Hispanic 514 36.71 %
White 579 41. 36 %
Asian 116 8.29 %

third coast.. said:

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Yea but what percentage is on free lunch?

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29% are listed as economically disadvantaged.

https://www.har.com/RhondaCote/tools/school/campus_detail/101915005/klein-cain-high-school

this was the first result when I googled klein cain demographics.

HA!

You're going to find similar demographics at just about any school in the 'burbs. Even the two Woodlands high schools are 25%+ Hispanic. As others pointed out, the stat that varies the most depending on the 'burb is the % "economically disadvantaged". It's 5% and 17% in the two Woodlands high schools (compared to 37% in Conroe ISD as a whole), and 25% in Tomball ISD.

We are in Tomball ISD and I've been pleased. I think the biggest difference in having a well-run district is with respect to size - Tomball ISD serves just over 16k kids across 20 schools (two high schools). Klein ISD serves 50K+ kids across 47 (soon to be 48) schools, including 5 high schools. At some point, things just get too big.

The thought of sending my kid to a high school with 3-4K students (or more) just doesn't sit well with me.

redag06 said:

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Have a friend who works at Klein Cain, and from what I have heard that is definitely ALREADY hood.

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That isn't their issue. When you're trying to make small talk with the AP English teacher and ask her where she went to college and she answers........................I went to such and such but I wish I could have went to so and so. It was hard not to laugh but it answered a lot of my questions.

What are the problems people are seeing at Klein Cain? My son is just finishing 9th grade there and has been fine this year. Is there something I am missing or should be on the look out for?

ag97tx said:

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What are the problems people are seeing at Klein Cain? My son is just finishing 9th grade there and has been fine this year. Is there something I am missing or should be on the look out for?

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scared parents.

Grew up in Tomball (graduated a couple of years before the split to two high schools). K-12 was great, but you could tell things were trending more urban/socioeconomically disadvantaged 20 years ago. My mom volunteered at one of the newer elementary schools from about 2005-2012 and had weekly stories that made me cringe. I don't even know how I'd feel about sending kids there now.

I wonder if the demographics have changed at all at Klein Cain since that information. This year it now has 9-11th grades and the school I think has almost doubled in enrollment since last years data because the incoming freshman class has about 1000 students according to my son.

I mean it's possible but the new kids feeding into the school are from the same population as the ones from before, no?

Mr. AGSPRT04 said:

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Grew up in Tomball (graduated a couple of years before the split to two high schools). K-12 was great, but you could tell things were trending more urban/socioeconomically disadvantaged 20 years ago. My mom volunteered at one of the newer elementary schools from about 2005-2012 and had weekly stories that made me cringe. I don't even know how I'd feel about sending kids there now.

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I think rapid growth and the addition of a bunch of new elementary schools has caused some unintended segregation. A lot of the new elem schools were built as "neighborhood" schools in affluent areas. For example, there are three new elem schools in Creekside, which is in The Woodlands. There are almost no "economically disadvantaged" kids at any of them (or at the neighborhood jr high, either). Before those schools were built, though, those student populations were distributed differently.

Although, you do say your mom worked at some of the newer schools...

Anyway I think it's all very interesting. Before moving to TISD, we were in College Station ISD - where every time a new school opens, there is a huge argument over disadvantaged kids being bused out of the way to attend the new schools (or kids from affluent kids being zoned to schools that aren't the closest to their house), just so the district can keep their demographics evenly distributed. I haven't heard anything like that since moving to TISD.

My entire subdivision zones to Cain but right now since the school just opened last year the entire group of seniors that would be zoned there are still at Oak. I think other seniors would have been zoned to Klein that are now zoned to Cain also.

Out of all the neighborhoods though zoned to Cain I would think mine is the largest and may have an impact on demographics.

My mom volunteered at Rosehill Elementary (which I would have been zoned to had it existed back then instead of the hour school bus ride to Decker Prarie Elementary). My understanding is that there are plans underway to build multiple campuses (jr high school/elementary/sports complex) in the area that used to be the Beckendorf Dairyoff of Cypress-Rosehill/99.

https://communityimpact.com/houston/tomball-magnolia/education/2019/04/14/new-tomball-isd-junior-high-opening-delayed-to-august-2021-board-approves-bond-project-costs/

Mr. AGSPRT04 said:

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My mom volunteered at Rosehill Elementary (which I would have been zoned to had it existed back then instead of the hour school bus ride to Decker Prarie Elementary). My understanding is that there are plans underway to build multiple campuses (jr high school/elementary/sports complex) in the area that used to be the Beckendorf Dairyoff of Cypress-Rosehill/99.

https://communityimpact.com/houston/tomball-magnolia/education/2019/04/14/new-tomball-isd-junior-high-opening-delayed-to-august-2021-board-approves-bond-project-costs/

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Yeah, they broke ground on the new stadium today. The district really needs a new jr high in that area, but from
that article, it looks like that's been delayed. The district pretty much had to build the elem schools and jr high for Creekside/The Woodlands because there literally were no elem schools in the area at all, and the closest jr high was the one adjacent to Tomball High. I think the rest of the district is probably feeling a little neglected.

From what I understand, all the new growth in the district has been in Creekside and around Tomball Memorial, south of 99.

ag97tx said:

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My entire subdivision zones to Cain but right now since the school just opened last year the entire group of seniors that would be zoned there are still at Oak. I think other seniors would have been zoned to Klein that are now zoned to Cain also.

Out of all the neighborhoods though zoned to Cain I would think mine is the largest and may have an impact on demographics.

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If you're in Gleannloch Farms, like myself, then you are correct.

ag97tx said:

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What are the problems people are seeing at Klein Cain? My son is just finishing 9th grade there and has been fine this year. Is there something I am missing or should be on the look out for?

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My issues were both kids and teachers having phones in class and the difficulty in getting answers to questions I had. That may seem trivial to some but it got me looking around and I'm glad I did. The distractions in class seem counter productive to me.

Someone said scared parents though I don't know exactly how he meant that. I guess I'm scared of my kid not getting the education I want for him.

If that environment works for your child good for both of you. I chose a different alternative and I'm glad I did.