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BETA ACADEMY
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 46% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BETA ACADEMY
Located at 10929 ALMEDA GENOA RD, in HOUSTON, Texas, BETA ACADEMY is a low-enrollment four-year high school that hosts 537 students (grades 6 through 12), overseen by BETA ACADEMY. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so BETA ACADEMY sits 33% below that benchmark.
BETA ACADEMY is one of 2 schools operated by BETA ACADEMY, a district that educates 1,569 students overall.
In terms of who attends, BETA ACADEMY shows that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 10% White, 10% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BETA ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 64% of students at BETA ACADEMY 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, BETA ACADEMY ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 45.7%; BETA ACADEMY posts 64.4%, +18.6 points above that line.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate 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 BETA ACADEMY is one.
Nearest neighbor: MEADOR EL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BETA ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, BETA ACADEMY comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.
BETA ACADEMY operates from a downtown location. BETA ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BETA ACADEMY has held roughly steady, going from 549 students in 2018 to 537 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 5% to 10% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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