DAVID & TERRI YOUNGBLOOD EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 DAVID & TERRI YOUNGBLOOD EL
Located at 25600 LONGENBAUGH RD, in KATY, Texas, DAVID & TERRI YOUNGBLOOD EL is a high-enrollment elementary-level community that caters to 1,186 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under KATY ISD. That puts it 129% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
DAVID & TERRI YOUNGBLOOD EL is one of 78 schools operated by KATY ISD, a district that hosts 96,111 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, DAVID & TERRI YOUNGBLOOD EL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Black, 13% Asian, 12% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully less Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at DAVID & TERRI YOUNGBLOOD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Harris County's rate of about 70%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DAVID & TERRI YOUNGBLOOD EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.5%.
Around the school, 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), DAVID & TERRI YOUNGBLOOD EL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is NELSON J H, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DAVID & TERRI YOUNGBLOOD EL comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
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