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ARABIC IMMERSION MAGNET SCHOOL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 20 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 ARABIC IMMERSION MAGNET SCHOOL
ARABIC IMMERSION MAGNET SCHOOL, an average-sized K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by HOUSTON ISD, hosts 609 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.
ARABIC IMMERSION MAGNET SCHOOL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that serves 176,727 students overall.
Demographically, ARABIC IMMERSION MAGNET SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 16% Black, 14% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 34% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ARABIC IMMERSION MAGNET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.3%, the actual is 62.4%, a residual of +11.1 points.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), ARABIC IMMERSION MAGNET SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is HCC LIFE SKILLS PROGRAM, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARABIC IMMERSION MAGNET SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ARABIC IMMERSION MAGNET SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.2%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Looking at the recent track record. ARABIC IMMERSION MAGNET SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 109% since 2018, when it stood at 291 (now 609). The White share of enrollment increased from 32% to 55% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 24.9:1 today.
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Harris County at a glance
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