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Robert Browning Elementary School is a Texas Education Agency Exemplary  School that is located on the eastern edge of the Heights Community in north-central Houston. A high-quality, rigorous education that connects our inner-city students with the environment has always been important at Browning Elementary.

The school's very first principal began a tradition of planting a new tree each year on Arbor Day, a tradition which has provided our campus with mature oaks, pines, pecan, and magnolia trees. Even the school's builders understood the importance of the natural world in education when they built the new school around the beautiful old oak shown in the photo at left, which now provides ample shade for outdoor studies and class picnics.

In 1995, a nature center was added to our campus to further our students' experiences with the natural world. Our campus now boasts a large vegetable garden, a pond, butterfly and hummingbird plantings, a wildflower garden, and a native plants' garden. Students and teachers alike enjoy getting their hands dirty as they plant, tend, and harvest a variety of vegetables year round. Squeals of delight abound as students discover new plants and tiny critters while searching through our gardens with hand lenses, science notebooks in hand to journal their findings.