Enrollment
367
Elementary
STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL·NCES 480003507914
Alief Montessori Community School
12013 6TH ST, HOUSTON, TX 77072 · (281) 530-9406 · Harris County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL367 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Texas public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
19 FTE teachers
STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
288 students
STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 101 | 28% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 26 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 32 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 28 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 18 | 5% |
| Grade 7 | 18 | 5% |
| Grade 8 | 16 | 4% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 181% larger than its 8th grade class (16).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
63.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +22.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
47.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +8.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 22 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 34.0% | 29.0% | 25.0% | 12.0% |
| Mathematics | 22.0% | 25.0% | 26.0% | 27.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 63.0% | 47.0% |
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 42.0% |
| 2022-23 | 66.0% | 58.0% |
| 2021-22 | 61.0% | 47.0% |
| 2020-21 | 41.0% | 39.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
53.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.2%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Alief Montessori Community School
Alief Montessori Community School's state test result (53.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alief Montessori Community School this school | 367 | 78.5% | 53.2% |
| Hickman Elementary School GARLAND | 484 | 80.6% | 50.2% |
| Wieland Elementary School PFLUGERVILLE | 372 | 66.7% | 48.1% |
| Vernal Lister Elementary School GARLAND | 586 | 79.4% | 38.5% |
| Barrington Place Elementary School SUGAR LAND | 424 | 61.1% | 51.0% |
| Colonies North Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 513 | 79.7% | 24.1% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Alief Montessori Community School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.2% | #1,187 of 4,401 | #125 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #2,004 of 4,466 ▲ 388 | #272 of 625 ▲ 64 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #1,145 of 4,466 ▲ 88 | #131 of 625 ▲ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -7.0pp | #514 of 3,998 | #63 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 367 | #3,748 of 4,938 | #571 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.6:1 | #4,422 of 4,622 | #629 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.8% | #635 of 4,628 | #86 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.5% | #2,056 of 4,789 | #424 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +28.8% | #273 of 1,307 | #22 of 148 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
367
+36 (+11%) vs 2020
+271% since 2000-01, when it was 99
Student : Teacher
19.6:1
was 20.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 367 | 18.7 | 19.6:1 | 78% (288) |
| 2023-24 | 384 | 17.2 | 22.3:1 | 77% (295) |
| 2022-23 | 370 | 18.2 | 20.4:1 | 82% (303) |
| 2020-21 | 331 | 16 | 20.7:1 | 76% (251) |
| 2017-18 | 285 | 14 | 20.4:1 | 29% (84) |
| 2015-16 | 294 | 10 | 29.4:1 | 60% (176) |
| 2010-11 | 242 | 9 | 26.9:1 | 88% (212) |
| 2000-01 | 99 | 5 | 19.8:1 | 46% (46) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Alief Montessori Community School.
Since 2017-18: students up 29% (285 to 367); teachers up 34% (14 to 18.7).
About Alief Montessori Community School
Alief Montessori Community School is one of the public schools in HOUSTON, Texas. It is a small elementary school. The latest federal count shows 367 students in pre-K through 8. Against the 519-student average for elementary schools in Texas, enrollment here is 29% lower.
The school serves as its own district in federal records.
Federal enrollment data show Asian students as the largest group at Alief Montessori Community School, at 38%. Other groups make up 38% Hispanic, 13% Black, 6% multiracial, and 5% White. County-wide, 7% of Harris County residents are Asian. The school's diversity index is 69%, meaning two students picked at random have a 69% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
A ratio of 19.6:1 comes from the school's 18.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 4.5 students per teacher above the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 78% in 2024-25.
allk12 grades Alief Montessori Community School an A-. The grade compares the school only with Texas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Alief Montessori Community School's average proficiency rate on state tests of 53.2% is 13.0 points above the 40.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Alief Montessori Community School is located in Harris County, where the median household income is $74,983, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Besides Alief Montessori Community School, Harris County has 1,204 other public schools.
The closest public school to Alief Montessori Community School is Youens Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Alief Montessori Community School is ahead of the 43.4% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 7.
Alief Montessori Community School is coded as City: Large in federal locale data. Alief Montessori Community School is a public charter school.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 36 more students in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 20.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 19.6:1.
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Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in HOUSTON
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- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
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- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Nearby schools
- Youens Elementary School0.3 mi · 675
- Alief Middle School0.4 mi · 821
- Hastings High School0.5 mi · 3,786
- Alief Learning Center (6-12)0.7 mi · 140
- Alief Learning Center (K-6)0.7 mi · 6
- Elsik High School0.8 mi · 4,057
Frequently asked questions
About Alief Montessori Community SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Alief Montessori Community School?
Alief Montessori Community School enrolls approximately 367 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Alief Montessori Community School serve?
Alief Montessori Community School serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Alief Montessori Community School?
Approximately 19.6:1 students per teacher at Alief Montessori Community School.
How diverse is Alief Montessori Community School?
Alief Montessori Community School reports a student body of 5% White, 38% Hispanic, 13% Black, 38% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Alief Montessori Community School?
Alief Montessori Community School is overseen by ALIEF MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL in Harris County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.