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DONALD J STOCKTON JH
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 23 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 DONALD J STOCKTON JH
DONALD J STOCKTON JH operates as a big middle-grades school in CONROE, Texas, run under CONROE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,367 students spanning grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 113% bigger than typical.
CONROE ISD runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 72,914 students. DONALD J STOCKTON JH is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, DONALD J STOCKTON JH lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 25% White, 12% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 95 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Montgomery County's rate of about 48%.
After controlling for student poverty, DONALD J STOCKTON JH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of -1.4 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household income runs about $97,701, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), DONALD J STOCKTON JH is one campus in the mix.
BOZMAN INT 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 DONALD J STOCKTON JH at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 43.6%.
DONALD J STOCKTON JH operates from a downtown location.
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