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AULT EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 10 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 AULT EL
Located at 21010 MAPLE VILLAGE DR, in CYPRESS, Texas, AULT EL is a large K-5 school that educates 930 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD. That puts it 79% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
AULT EL is one of 92 schools operated by CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, a district that teaches 117,927 students overall.
Demographically, AULT EL reports that the largest single group is White at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 13% Black, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), AULT EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.0%, the actual is 62.0%, a residual of +4.0 points.
In the broader community, Harris County reports that median household income runs about $74,983, 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), AULT EL is one campus in the mix.
KEITH EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around AULT EL. On composite proficiency, AULT EL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Five-year trend. AULT EL's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 1,045 (now 930). The White share of enrollment shrank from 49% to 39% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.
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