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DEAN LEAMAN JH
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 21 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 DEAN LEAMAN JH
DEAN LEAMAN JH is one of the large junior highs in FULSHEAR, Texas, overseen by LAMAR CISD, with 2,888 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so DEAN LEAMAN JH sits 349% bigger than that benchmark.
LAMAR CISD comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 46,786 students; DEAN LEAMAN JH is among them.
Looking at the student body, DEAN LEAMAN JH logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 30%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 29% White, 24% Black, 12% Asian, 5% multiracial.
On the resource side, On paper, DEAN LEAMAN JH has 128 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting DEAN LEAMAN JH higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 31% of students at DEAN LEAMAN JH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Fort Bend County's rate of about 42%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DEAN LEAMAN JH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.4%; this one delivers 61.5%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Fort Bend County) reports that median household income runs about $114,041, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), DEAN LEAMAN JH is one campus in the mix.
FULSHEAR H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DEAN LEAMAN JH at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 73.6%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DEAN LEAMAN JH has expanded 204%, going from 950 students in 2018 to 2,888 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 29% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.
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