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ADAMS J H
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 11 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 68% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
About ADAMS J H
Located at 4141 CROSS CREEK BEND LN, in FULSHEAR, Texas, ADAMS J H is a roomy intermediate school that teaches 1,963 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by KATY ISD. That puts it 205% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
ADAMS J H is one of 78 schools operated by KATY ISD, a district that teaches 96,111 students overall.
Demographically, ADAMS J H records that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 30% Asian, 23% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 114 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting ADAMS J H higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Fort Bend County's rate of about 42%.
After controlling for student poverty, ADAMS J H ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 68.0%; ADAMS J H posts 83.3%, +15.3 points above that line.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Fort Bend County put the typical household earns roughly $114,041 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), ADAMS J H is one campus in the mix.
JORDAN H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ADAMS J H at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 74.9%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
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