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COLLEGE PARK EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 23 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% 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 15 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About COLLEGE PARK EL
COLLEGE PARK EL operates as a small primary school in DEER PARK, Texas, one of the schools within LA PORTE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 432 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
LA PORTE ISD comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 7,099 students; COLLEGE PARK EL is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, COLLEGE PARK EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% White, 9% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 62% of students at COLLEGE PARK EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, COLLEGE PARK 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 47.2%; this one delivers 61.9%, a residual of +14.7 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), COLLEGE PARK EL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is JP DABBS EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COLLEGE PARK EL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 53.0%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Trend over the last 7 years. COLLEGE PARK EL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 437 (now 432). Hispanic enrollment moved from 48% to 64% across the same window.
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