The Schools Zoned to 2727 Kirby Drive: Three Campuses, by the Numbers

Which campuses is 2727 Kirby Drive zoned to?

An attendance zone is the piece of the city whose addresses one campus takes, and Houston ISD publishes its zones as maps: a layer for elementary campuses, a layer for middle and a layer for high school, all three named for the 2026-2027 school year. Read on 18 September 2026 at the point the Census Bureau's own address geocoder returns for 2727 Kirby Drive, the three layers come back with one campus each: Poe Elementary, Lanier Middle School and Lamar High School.

Each zone record carries the grades it covers and the campus's own address. The elementary zone here is Poe Elementary at 5100 Hazard Street, zoned for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and grades one to five, with an earlier grade the layer writes as EE. The middle school zone is Lanier Middle School at 2600 Woodhead Street, for grades six to eight. The high school zone is Lamar High School at 3325 Westheimer Road, for grades nine to twelve.

A fourth layer, the district's feeder pattern, prints a chain rather than one level at a time. At this point it reads Poe ES, then Lanier MS, then Lamar HS, in the district's own shorthand, so the chain and the three zone layers agree.

One point was read here, and this building holds many homes. The point is the one the geocoder returns for the street address, it fell inside exactly one polygon at each level, and a unit number was never part of that query, because the layers do not hold one. Houston ISD settles a zone address by address.

What are the two figures beside each campus, and who publishes them?

The Texas Education Agency rates districts and campuses with one overall letter, A through F. The agency's own page on how those letters are decided, read on 18 September 2026, names what they rest on: "Accountability ratings are based on three domains: Student Achievement, School Progress, and Closing the Gaps." Of the campus letter the same page says it measures "what students are learning in each grade and whether or not they are ready for the next grade", and that it also shows how well a school prepares its students for success after high school.

The letters and the method behind them are both issued a year at a time. That same page sends a reader to the 2026 Accountability Rating System Manual for how this year's data were processed, and to the 2027 manual for the current methodology. Houston ISD's own letter for 2026 is a B, read in the agency's 2026 statewide multi-year ratings spreadsheet, and the three campus letters in the table below come out of the same file.

Beside each letter the table carries the figure GreatSchools publishes for that campus, out of 10, read on 18 September 2026 at the top of the campus's own profile: the Poe profile, the Lanier profile and the Lamar profile. The panel that explains the figure on each of the three is dated 29 May 2026, describes GreatSchools as a national nonprofit organization, and says the figure "provides a snapshot of school quality based on the following measures". Those measures, each carrying its own weight, are not printed here, and neither is anything else those profiles hold.

The rows are alphabetical by campus, which is how a reader finds one, and neither figure decides the order. The two columns are separate readings by separate publishers on separate scales, and neither one checks the other.

No National Blue Ribbon award appears beside any of the three. The U.S. Department of Education's program publishes a cumulative list of every school it recognized from 1982 through 2019, a list for each year from 2020 to 2023, and a page of 2024 awardees, which is the last cohort it has published, and none of these three campus names appears on any of them. The program's own address does not answer requests from this network, so each list was read in the Internet Archive's copy, and the links here open that copy.

Are the state's 2026 letters final?

Not until December. The agency's 2026 A-F Accountability Ratings Appeals Process and Timeline, read on 18 September 2026, sets the year out in rows: the preliminary release on 12 August 2026, which is the day the appeals window opened; the deadline at 5pm on 11 September 2026; and 11 December 2026 for the "2026 Final Ratings and Count of Consecutive Years of Unacceptable Performance Release", when "The outcomes of all appeals are reflected in the final ratings and year counts update."

The same timeline attaches a condition that December does not lift: ratings and year counts "are subject to change due to the results of an audit, compliance review, or investigation". A letter records what the agency published on one day.

Does a home here have to apply for anything?

An address gives a home a zoned seat, and Houston ISD runs a second route beside that one. The district calls itself an open-enrollment district of choice and says a student may apply to campuses beyond the zoned one, and to specialized programs across the district, on a single application. Its eligibility page, read in September 2026, carries the conditions on that: "Some programs require students to meet an entrance requirement", "Priority status gives eligible applications a higher ranking in the lottery process", and a sibling priority at the three entering grade levels the district names, kindergarten, sixth and ninth, where a sibling is already enrolled at the campus being applied to and is returning the next school year.

All three campuses above carry magnet programming, and the district files a magnet campus under one of three types, which decide who applies for what. Poe Elementary is listed as a School Wide Program: "All non-zoned students must apply to these schools. Zoned students do not need to apply given the full school participates in the programming." Lanier Middle School and Lamar High School are both listed as School Within a School, which the district defines this way.

The same page adds a condition worth knowing at this address: a student accepted into a magnet school may be eligible for free transportation where the student lives at least two miles from the school and inside Houston ISD's boundaries.

What should you put to Houston ISD in writing before an offer?

Write to the district with the whole address, unit number included, and say which school year you mean. Ask for all three levels in one reply rather than the level you need first, ask the date that answer was last reviewed, and ask whether any boundary change is under consideration for the year you named.

The district's own answer for one address comes from School Navigator. The address at houstonisd.org/schoolfinder redirects to it, and on 18 September 2026 what it served was a loading screen waiting for a browser to run the application, which is why this page reads the published maps and looks nothing up. Run your own unit through it, keep the answer it gives you, and ask the district for the same answer in writing.

A seller has the same reason to ask early. The question arrives with the first buyer either way, and a written answer from the district settles it faster than a recollection or an old listing page does. It belongs in the file beside the resale certificate and the association's documents.

What can this page not tell you?

The zone for one home in this building. Houston ISD settles that address by address, and no address was put through its lookup for this page.

How the figure out of 10 is worked out. This page prints the number, the publisher and the date it was read, and leaves the weighted parts behind it alone.

Whether the 2026 letters survive December. The final set arrives on 11 December 2026, and an audit, a compliance review or an investigation can move one afterwards.

What the district will vouch for in its own maps. It says nothing at all: the four layers were checked at the layer, the service and the item level, and every one of them carries an empty licence field and no accuracy wording of any kind, so no warning and no assurance is written here on the district's behalf.

Whether an application would succeed. The district's lottery settles that, on its own priorities and its own dates, and none of that is predictable from here.

What either figure is worth to a home in this building. Both publishers print student and enrollment figures beside the ones above and none of those was taken, and no campus on this page is described, ranked or set against another.