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ALDINE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ALDINE H S
ALDINE H S is one of the sizable senior highs in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by ALDINE ISD, with 2,481 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 212% above the state mean of about 796.
ALDINE ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 56,419 students. ALDINE H S is one of those campuses.
On demographics, ALDINE H S records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). The remainder breaks down as 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, ALDINE H S has 160 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ALDINE H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.7%, the actual is 37.9%, a residual of +3.2 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), ALDINE H S is one campus in the mix.
LA PROMESA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ALDINE H S comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Five-year trend. ALDINE H S's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 2,463 (now 2,481).
On the community side, the feed for ALDINE H S typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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