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AVALOS P-TECH SCHOOL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout AVALOS P-TECH SCHOOL
Located at 2430 ALDINE MAIL ROUTE RD, in HOUSTON, Texas, AVALOS P-TECH SCHOOL is a low-enrollment high school that works with 400 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within ALDINE ISD. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 50% below typical.
ALDINE ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 56,419 students; AVALOS P-TECH SCHOOL is among them.
In terms of who attends, AVALOS P-TECH SCHOOL records that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 7% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 77% of students at AVALOS P-TECH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AVALOS P-TECH SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 40.1%; this one delivers 69.3%, a residual of +29.1 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Harris County) records that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which AVALOS P-TECH SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is STEPHENS EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, AVALOS P-TECH SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
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