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CYPRESS WOODS H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 38 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 26 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 61% 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 CYPRESS WOODS H S
CYPRESS WOODS H S operates as a high-enrollment four-year high school in CYPRESS, Texas, operated by CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 3,469 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so CYPRESS WOODS H S sits 336% above that benchmark.
CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD runs 92 schools in total, collectively educating 117,927 students. CYPRESS WOODS H S is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, CYPRESS WOODS H S reports that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 29% Hispanic, 14% Black, 13% Asian, 4% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 217 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Harris County's rate of about 70%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CYPRESS WOODS H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 60.9%; actual is 84.1%, +23.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Harris County shows median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which CYPRESS WOODS H S is one.
The closest other public school is ROBISON EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CYPRESS WOODS H S. On composite proficiency, CYPRESS WOODS H S comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.5%.
CYPRESS WOODS H S operates from a residential location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CYPRESS WOODS H S has changed only slightly, going from 3,548 students in 2018 to 3,469 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 51% to 40% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.
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