Browning Elementary is located in the Greater Heights. It is a public, elementary affiliated with Houston ISD. Browning serves neighborhood zoned students, and is also a dual language English/Spanish school. It is an additive bilingual program for native Spanish-speaking students and a foreign language immersion program for English-speaking students. In two-way classrooms, a combination of native Spanish speakers and native English speakers are taught together in an effort to develop full bilingualism and bi-literacy for both groups of students by the 3rd grade. The school, named after the British Poet, Robert Browning (1812-1889), was built in 1927 and features many outdoor study areas and gardens.