Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
CYPRESS CREEK H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 30 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 CYPRESS CREEK H S
CYPRESS CREEK H S is a four-year high school of sprawling scale in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, works with 3,222 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 305% bigger than the state mean of about 796.
CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD runs 92 schools in total, collectively educating 117,927 students. CYPRESS CREEK H S is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, CYPRESS CREEK H S logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 29% Black, 17% White, 10% Asian, 3% multiracial. Compared to Harris County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 210 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CYPRESS CREEK H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.5%, the actual is 58.5%, a residual of +12.0 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that 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), CYPRESS CREEK H S is one campus in the mix.
MATZKE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CYPRESS CREEK H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CYPRESS CREEK H S at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 45.0%.
CYPRESS CREEK H S operates from a commuter-belt location.
Trend over the last 7 years. CYPRESS CREEK H S's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 3,357 (now 3,222). Over the same period, the White share declined from 26% to 17%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Harris County at a glance
View full county profileQuick facts
Related schools
- BRIDGELAND H SHigh · 3,707 students
- CYPRESS WOODS H SHigh · 3,469 students
- CYPRESS RANCH H SHigh · 3,463 students
- JERSEY VILLAGE H SHigh · 3,323 students
- CY-FAIR H SHigh · 3,216 students
- CYPRESS LAKES H SHigh · 3,175 students
- TEXAS CONNECTIONS ACADEMY AT HOUSTONCombined · 8,641 students
- NORTH SHORE SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,284 students
- ELSIK H SHigh · 4,057 students
- SUMMER CREEK H SHigh · 3,972 students
- HASTINGS H SHigh · 3,786 students
- C E KING H SHigh · 3,716 students
- MATZKE EL0.4 mi · 1,026
- HANCOCK EL1.0 mi · 749
- ARISTOI CLASSICAL ACADEMY-CYPRESS1.0 mi · 511
- BLEYL MIDDLE1.0 mi · 1,322
- MOORE EL2.0 mi · 873
- CAMPBELL MIDDLE2.1 mi · 1,076