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Houston: 34 small schools documented — Microschools (10), Small & Specialized Private Schools (10), Learner-Driven (Acton) Schools (6) and more below. The transparency numbers first, because they are the point of this site: 7 of 34 schools here publish tuition (21%), 0 record at least one funding or ESA program with a named source, and 6 publish days per week.
Every fact on a listing names its source and check date, and every gap is shown as a gap — "Tuition not published" means the school does not publish it, not that it is free or expensive. Schools claim their listing free to complete their decision data. The region breaks down by area: Houston (19), Houston area (2), Missouri City (2), The Woodlands (2).
Hub content last reviewed 2026-10-28.
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Endless Possibilities Academy is a private microschool for grades PreK-5 offering a personalised, nurturing learning environment, listed in KaiPod's Houston-area directory. Tuition…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Brilliant Minds Christian Academy is a Christ-centred private school in Humble serving Pre-K through 2nd grade, listed in KaiPod's Houston-area directory. Tuition, TEFA status and …
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Forest STEAM Academy is a 6th-12th grade microschool in Houston's Spring Branch area designed for kinesthetic learners, set in a forest along a river with hands-on projects and out…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Calmecac In Lak'Ech is a Houston microschool whose stated vision is education rooted in cultural preservation of Indigenous knowledge and social-emotional learning, listed in KaiPo…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Prestige Wisdom Academy is a Houston microschool offering personalised education, listed in KaiPod's Houston-area directory. Grades, tuition, TEFA status and schedule were not publ…
5125 FM 1960 Rd W, Houston, TX 77069 · (346) 861-9304
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
E.L.L.A Learning Studio is a Houston microschool for grades 9-12 for students who need a smaller, more personalised environment, with hybrid or flexible enrolment and a virtual opt…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
The INSPIRE Center appears in KaiPod's Houston-area results as a family resource centre for neurodiverse children that also runs a microschool and specialised tutoring. Grades, tui…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Amanah Therapeutic Academy appears in KaiPod's Houston-area results as a private school designed to support neurodivergent learners through a structured, integrated and faith-centr…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
God's Little People Learning Academy is a faith-based Houston microschool for Pre-K through 2nd grade, blending structured teacher-led instruction with student-led inquiry and an e…
School-confirmed · last checked 2026-10-28
MindSprout Montessori is a teacher-led Montessori program in the Spring / Woodlands area for ages 6-14, with classes of about 12 students and a 6:1 ratio. Families choose two, thre…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Rise Homeschool Classes is a Missouri City hybrid program offering K-12 classes for homeschool families. Tuition, TEFA status and weekly schedule were not published in the sources …
19506 Vicksburg Blvd, Missouri City, TX 77459 · (832) 736-8320
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Acton Academy Houston Heights is a campus of the Acton Academy network, which uses mixed-age, learner-driven studios, Socratic discussion and hands-on projects instead of tradition…
1245 Heights Blvd, Houston, TX
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Acton Academy Kingwood is a campus of the Acton Academy network, which uses mixed-age, learner-driven studios, Socratic discussion and hands-on projects instead of traditional clas…
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Acton Academy Katy is a campus of the Acton Academy network, which uses mixed-age, learner-driven studios, Socratic discussion and hands-on projects instead of traditional classroo…
4112 Fulshear Katy Road, Katy, TX 77494
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Acton Academy Fulshear is a campus of the Acton Academy network, which uses mixed-age, learner-driven studios, Socratic discussion and hands-on projects instead of traditional clas…
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Acton Academy Pearland is a campus of the Acton Academy network, which uses mixed-age, learner-driven studios, Socratic discussion and hands-on projects instead of traditional clas…
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Acton Academy Missouri City is a campus of the Acton Academy network, which uses mixed-age, learner-driven studios, Socratic discussion and hands-on projects instead of traditional…
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Alpha School's Houston campus is part of the Alpha network, whose model compresses core academics into about two hours of AI-personalised learning per day, with the rest of the day…
School-confirmed · last checked 2026-10-28
The Joy School is a Houston independent school founded in 1997 for intellectually capable students with learning differences such as dyslexia, ADHD and language disorders, with ave…
1 Chelsea Blvd, Houston, TX 77006 · (713) 523-0660
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Gateway Academy is a Houston nonprofit private school for grades 6-12 serving students with social and learning differences, including autism, ADHD, anxiety and dyslexia, with aver…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
The Briarwood School is a Houston K-12 school founded in 1967 for students with learning differences and developmental disabilities, with average classes of about eight students an…
12207 Whittington Dr, Houston, TX 77077 · (281) 493-1070
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The Parish School is a Houston school for young children, described in special-needs directories as serving early childhood from 18 months to 12 years. Tuition, TEFA status and sch…
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Rainard School is a Houston school for gifted children ages 4-14, offering creative, interdisciplinary instruction in non-graded, mixed-age classrooms for up to about 90 students. …
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The Arbor School is a Houston school educating students with significant special needs, listed in nonprofit and special-education directories. Grades, tuition, TEFA status and sche…
1919 Knoll Street, Houston, TX 77080 · (713) 827-8830
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Crossroads School, established in 1977, is a Houston school serving students with a variety of learning differences, aiming to help students who learn in atypical ways become their…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Metropolitan Montessori is a Houston Montessori school identified through public place listings during our research build. Grades, tuition, TEFA status and schedule were not publis…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Elderflower Montessori is a Wildflower Schools network school in Houston's East End, described by Wildflower as the first Wildflower school in Texas and by the school itself as an …
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Water Willow Montessori is listed in Wildflower Schools' official Our Schools directory as a Wildflower network school in Baytown, Texas, serving the Primary level. Wildflower scho…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Elevate Enrichment Microschool Academy is a microschool in Houston, TX, listed in Prenda's public microschool directory as accepting students for grades K-8. Prenda guides run thei…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Creative Minds Microschool is a Prenda-network microschool in Houston, Texas, serving grades K-8 in the 2026-2027 school year, with a focus on personalised instruction for learners…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Fusion Academy Houston Galleria is a campus of Fusion Academy in Houston, TX, listed in Fusion's published campus list. Fusion is a private school in which classes are taught one-t…
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Fusion Academy Sugar Land is a campus of Fusion Academy in Sugar Land, TX, listed in Fusion's published campus list. Fusion is a private school in which classes are taught one-to-o…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Fusion Academy The Woodlands is a campus of Fusion Academy in The Woodlands, TX, listed in Fusion's published campus list. Fusion is a private school in which classes are taught on…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Alpha School - The Woodlands is a campus of Alpha School in The Woodlands, TX, listed on Alpha's own locations page with annual tuition of $40,000. Alpha's model completes core aca…
Only 7 of the 34 schools documented here publish tuition at all — published figures include Forest STEAM Academy (5-day full-day $10,000/year; 5-day half-day $5,000/year; 3-day full-day $6,000/year; 3-day half-day $3,000/year; 2-day full-day $4,000/year; 2-day half-day $2,000/year (monthly and quarterly billing options also published)); MindSprout Montessori (2026-27 published schedule, e.g. Early Childhood & Elementary core academics: 2 days $7,900/yr; 3 days $10,500/yr; 4 days $12,800/yr (longer days and lower-secondary rates higher; full schedule on tuition page) — 2026-27 school year). The rest do not publish it anywhere we could source, which is why their listings carry the admissions-page link and the exact questions to ask. Published tuition is the exception in this market, not the rule.
From the schools' own published pages: Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) (1 schools). Each listing's funding row names its source — a state program list or the school's own statement — because "ESA accepted" claims in ads are easy to make and hard to verify.
6 of 34. Days per week decides whether a small school fits a family's work schedule — a four-day hybrid and a five-day microschool are different products at similar prices — so we record it as a first-class field and show it as a gap where a school does not publish it.
Because most small schools genuinely do not publish tuition — they quote it in conversation. We tested this before building the site and found it everywhere, so the model here is claim-first: listings launch with honest gap states and the phone and admissions links, and schools complete their own decision data free. A gap on this site is a sourced finding, not missing research.
How a school gets on this page: from a public-record source (NCES, a state list, a program provider list, or a network locator) or the school’s own published pages. Trust states describe how the facts were confirmed; they are not a quality judgement, and schools are never ordered by quality.