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CLARK INT
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 36 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 23 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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%.
About CLARK INT
CLARK INT is a junior high of reasonably sized scale in SPRING, Texas, operated by CONROE ISD, caters to 913 students in grades 5 through 6. That puts it 42% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
CONROE ISD comprises 66 schools with combined enrollment of 72,914 students; CLARK INT is among them.
On demographics, CLARK INT logs that 55% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CLARK INT has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting CLARK INT higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 15% of students at CLARK INT qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, CLARK INT sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.2%; this one delivers 75.6%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household income runs about $97,701, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), CLARK INT is one campus in the mix.
HINES EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CLARK INT. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CLARK INT ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 66.0%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
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