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BROOKLINE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 17 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% 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 23 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BROOKLINE EL
BROOKLINE EL is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within HOUSTON ISD, with 580 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
BROOKLINE EL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that caters to 176,727 students overall.
In terms of who attends, BROOKLINE EL records that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BROOKLINE EL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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, BROOKLINE EL 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 31.6%; this one delivers 54.5%, a residual of +22.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which BROOKLINE EL is one.
The closest other public school is GEORGE I SANCHEZ CHARTER, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BROOKLINE EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.
The school occupies an urban site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 37%: 928 students in 2018 compared to 580 in 2025.
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Harris County at a glance
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