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BILL HASSE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 6 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 BILL HASSE EL
As a mid-sized elementary campus in ALVIN, Texas, BILL HASSE EL caters to 574 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of ALVIN ISD.
ALVIN ISD runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 30,038 students. BILL HASSE EL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, BILL HASSE EL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 55%; the rest is composed of 35% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 32% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 72% of students at BILL HASSE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Brazoria County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BILL HASSE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.1%; this one delivers 39.4%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Brazoria County) records that median household income runs about $97,993, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. BILL HASSE EL is one of 115 public schools in Brazoria County (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students).
RISE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BILL HASSE EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BILL HASSE EL has decreased 25%, going from 766 students in 2018 to 574 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 49% to 35%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Brazoria County at a glance
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