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School in Piney Point Village, Texas, United States

Kinkaid sports teams compete in the Southwest Preparatory Conference of the Independent Schools Association in the Southwest. An alumni event is the Kinkaid vs. St. John's School football game played each year at Rice Stadium, with the winning record belonging to Kinkaid. Kinkaid offers multiple sports per each sports season (fall, winter and spring). In the fall, it offers football (boys only), cross country, volleyball, cheerleading and field hockey (girls only). In the winter, it offers soccer, basketball, wrestling (boys only) and swimming. In the spring, they offer lacrosse, baseball (boys only), softball (girls only), track & field, tennis and golf.

Kinkaid offers a variety of courses in the performing and visual arts to its Upper and Middle School students. The performing arts include dance, acting, choir, band, and orchestra. The latter three each put on multiple performances throughout the year, as well as performing together in the annual holiday concert. In addition to these courses, there are extracurricular groups that Upper School students may audition for: Encore, Acting Company, and Dance Company. The visual arts courses include drawing & illustration, painting, printmaking, photography, film, and ceramics. Every spring, the Upper School puts on a musical for which all students, freshmen through seniors, may audition. Recent productions include Les Miserables, The Sound of Music, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Fiddler on the Roof, and Hairspray. The Middle School also puts on an annual musical production with the seventh and eighth graders. Arts students can participate in the annual ISAS Arts Festival, a program that gathers schools from across the southwest to enable students to showcase their talents and artwork. In 2009, Kinkaid hosted the festival and was scheduled to host again in 2021; however, that year's festival was cancelled due to COVID 19 related issues.

The School was founded in 1906 by Margaret Hunter Kinkaid. When the School was first established, it was located in the dining room of Margaret Hunter Kinkaid's house, which was at the intersection of Elgin and San Jacinto in what is now Midtown Houston. Tuition at the School ranged from $90 per year for first and second grades to $130 per year for sixth graders. Tuition for the 2016–2017 school year was $20,500 for Pre K through Grade 4, $23,720 for Grades 5 through 8, and $25,000 for Grades 9 through 12. Books, lunch, and a one time $1000 new student fee are not included.

The School's second location was at the intersection of Richmond and Graustark in the Neartown neighborhood. The School moved to this location in the fall of 1924. The School had its first Open House that year to celebrate the new facility. This tradition continues today. Kinkaid also added its upper school program beginning in the late 1920s. After more than thirty years, the school eventually outgrew its campus and was forced to look for a new location. The administration bought land in Piney Point Village. When the School moved, most of the buildings built by Kinkaid on the Richmond campus were torn down by the new tenants. Some of the old Kinkaid buildings remained for many years, but all had been torn down by 2005.

Since 1957 and through the present day, the School has been situated on a site in the city of Piney Point Village, an enclave of Houston, at the junction of 201 Kinkaid School Drive and San Felipe. Kinkaid introduced uniforms for its lower and middle school students beginning in the early 1960s. Upper school students have never been required to wear uniforms. Beginning in 1970, Kinkaid adopted what was known as an "open enrollment" policy. Beginning in the early 1990s, the campus began a large construction program in an effort to modernize its facilities. A new lower school building was constructed, and the old building was torn down, along with the "little" gym and lower school art and science buildings. A new middle school building was also constructed, and the existing upper school was expanded into the old middle school building. A new auditorium and cafeteria were built, and the remaining campus buildings were renovated. In addition to the physical changes on campus, the fifth grade was moved from lower school to middle school. Donald C. North was recruited to replace Ballard. North had previously been headmaster at North Carolina's Durham Academy, with earlier teaching and administrative stints at Kinkaid, Fort Worth Country Day School, and Dallas' St. Mark's School of Texas. North led Kinkaid from 1996 to 2013. Andrew D. Martire was appointed Kinkaid's fifth headmaster in 2013 after having been recruited from being headmaster at Baltimore's Calvert School. The School's Board of Trustees announced Dr. Martire's departure in an email in June 2018. Edward M. Trusty Jr. was appointed by the School's Board of Trustees as the interim head of school in June 2018, after serving as assistant head of school since June 2014. Dr. Trusty left Kinkaid in the summer of 2020 after Jonathan Eades was appointed the new head of school.

The Kinkaid School Archives contain the historical materials of The Kinkaid School including some of the earliest records of founder Margaret H. Kinkaid, as well as yearbooks, scrapbooks, newspapers, and photographic materials. The Archives became the repository of the School in 2005 when a committee of school faculty, staff, and volunteers began collecting and organizing the materials. Located in the Upper School Moran Library, the Archives has since grown to a collection of faculty manuscripts, school administrative records, athletics records, architectural plans, early student records, present day digital records, and some of the earliest class photos. The Archives are accessible to the general public.

In a 2015 national survey, Kinkaid was one of the 50 "Smartest Private Schools in the United States." Kinkaid is also known for its quiz bowl team. Their team was ranked first place nationally in the 2021 2022 season.

On November 11, 2009, a Kinkaid parent, Hugh "Skip" McGee III, sent an irate letter (entitled "The Tipping Point") to the School's board of trustees. An investment banker, McGee was angry that a teacher's comment about bankers had upset his son. The letter led to tension among the student body in response to the letter's reference to the student body president dressing in drag for a skit used during his campaign.

Philip Roth's novel, Exit Ghost, features a character who is described as having been a valedictorian at Kinkaid, prior to attending Harvard. In 1998, the movie Rushmore filmed scenes at Kinkaid. St. John's alumnus Wes Anderson used the now demolished Lower School Building for scenes set in an elementary school.