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Small & Specialized Private Schools in the Houston region: 10 schools, each documented from its own website or a public program list. 5 of the 10 publish tuition; 1 publish days per week; 0 record a funding program with a named source.
Use the filters to narrow by the things that decide a school choice — funding program, grade band, area, and whether tuition is published at all. Where a school has not published a field, its listing says so and gives you the question and the admissions link instead of a guess.
Hub content last reviewed 2026-10-28.
Computed from the 10 listings on this page — our dataset, counted, not estimated.
Ranked by how much documentation the business itself publishes — the evidence we could check, not a judgement of the food or the kitchen.
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
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
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
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…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
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. …
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
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
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…
| Name | Evidence tier | School model | Grades served | Funding reported accepted | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanah Therapeutic Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | — | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Alpha School - Houston | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| The Joy School | School-confirmed | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| The Gateway Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Middle school (grades 6–8), High school (grades 9–12) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| The Briarwood School | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8), High school (grades 9–12) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| The Parish School | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | — | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Rainard School | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | — | — | 2026-10-28 |
| The Arbor School | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | — | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Crossroads School | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | — | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Alpha School - The Woodlands | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | — | — | 2026-10-28 |
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5 of 10 (50%). That share is typical for this market and is the reason every listing here shows its tuition state explicitly — published figure, or an honest gap with the admissions link — rather than hiding unpublished schools.
None of these schools records a funding program in a source we could check. Funding in this segment is often confirmed at enquiry; each listing's prep card carries the question to ask with the program names that apply in this state.
From the school's own description of its model, cross-checked against any network it belongs to. Categories describe structure — size, schedule, philosophy — never quality. This site does not rank schools; it publishes the decision data schools themselves put out, and marks the rest as gaps.
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.
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