CreekDweller

How old are your kids? If they're grade school-age and small classes are really important to you, I'd recommend Abercrombie Academy in Spring (off of Louetta). I only went there until kindergarten but by brother went there up through 5th grade as did one of my younger uncles. The drawback there is they don't have as much to offer in terms of facilities/activities as public schools or larger private schools might. John Cooper is a great one (I went there for all 12 years and graduated 2 years ago), and though it's expensive it's definitely worth your money (beautiful campus, Ivy League-educated faculty, great academics, good athletic programs, virtually guaranteed to get into any Top 100 college you apply to) My brother is currently at Northland Christian and I know several people who went there. I've generally heard good things about it and that's another good one and not very expensive. Providence Classical School is SCARY, that was one my parents looked at for my brother a couple of years ago. Those people are RELIGIOUS FANATIC NUTJOBS and for the love of God (no pun intended) STAY AWAY FROM THERE. We have some neighbors whose kids attended Northwoods Catholic School and ended up leaving halfway through the year. Apparently if you're not Catholic it's a very unpleasant environment to be in. If you're willing to make the drive, Episcopal, Strake Jesuit, Kinkaid and St. John's are good ones too.

#1 College Park HS #2 The Woodlands HS #3 McCullough Junior High (formerly TWHS McCullough) #4 Klein Oak (?)

It depends on what you define as "illegal". We live in Spring ISD and know a few families who rent apartments or houses in Klein ISD so that they'll have a legal address to reigster their kids under to go to school in that district. I don't think they're doing anything really wrong; the law says anyone can attend a public school in a district where they own or rent some kind of real estate, and that's precisely what those people are doing. There was nothig stopping your family from doing the same if moving was such a hassle for you. What does bother me is the people who use a relative/friend's address in another district to go to school there. Because then they aren't even contributing anything to the district in terms of property taxes, utility district taxes, etc.

Willowbrook is always a couple of years behind The Woodlands Mall in terms of which stores they get. What next, an Apple store? I heard through the grapevine that Willowbrook is supposed to be getting a Neiman Marcus but that seems like a weird place to put one. One thing that has always surprised me about The Woodlands is that it's probably the only "affluent" mall I can think of that doesn't have a Starbucks (not counting the cafe in Barnes & Noble that serves Starbucks).

That place needs serious help. I had to go to not one but two high school proms at Del Lago. The interior looks like a crumbling relic from the 1980s with a really bad faux-Southwestern motif, and the bathrooms were gross. And the guests looked like they had just walked out of one of Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might Be a Redneck If..." routines.