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FIELD EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 20 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 FIELD EL
Set in HOUSTON, Texas, FIELD EL is a mid-tier elementary-level community, overseen by HOUSTON ISD. It instructs 507 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Within HOUSTON ISD, which oversees 273 schools and 176,727 students, FIELD EL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, FIELD EL logs that 57% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 30% White, 6% Black, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, FIELD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.7%, the actual is 67.7%, a residual of +12.0 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. FIELD EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
HEIGHTS H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FIELD EL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 47.1%.
FIELD EL operates from a metropolitan location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FIELD EL has changed only slightly, going from 502 students in 2018 to 507 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 85% to 57%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.
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