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DAVIS H S ALDINE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 DAVIS H S ALDINE
DAVIS H S ALDINE is one of the sizable senior highs in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within ALDINE ISD, with 3,184 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 300% bigger than typical.
ALDINE ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 56,419 students. DAVIS H S ALDINE is one of those campuses.
Demographically, DAVIS H S ALDINE records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school shows 28% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 188 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 83% of students at DAVIS H S ALDINE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DAVIS H S ALDINE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.5%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -5.1 points.
Around the school, Harris County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which DAVIS H S ALDINE is one.
PLUMMER MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DAVIS H S ALDINE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 28.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Looking at the recent track record. DAVIS H S ALDINE's enrollment has increased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 2,648 (now 3,184). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 62% to 68%. Class-load math has grew: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.
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