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BONNER EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 32 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 BONNER EL
BONNER EL operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by HOUSTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 561 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
HOUSTON ISD runs 273 schools in total, collectively educating 176,727 students. BONNER EL is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, BONNER EL reports that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 97% 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 above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BONNER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 38.3%, a residual of +6.7 points.
In the broader community, census data for Harris County shows median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which BONNER EL is one.
KIPP CLIMB ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BONNER EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.3%.
BONNER EL operates from a high-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 36%: 878 students in 2018 compared to 561 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, the feed for BONNER EL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Harris County at a glance
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