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FISHER EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About FISHER EL
FISHER EL is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in PASADENA, Texas, operated by PASADENA ISD, caters to 566 students in grades pre-K through 4.
PASADENA ISD runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 46,491 students. FISHER EL is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, FISHER EL logs that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic; the rest comes out to 11% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, FISHER EL shows 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting FISHER EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 84% of students at FISHER EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FISHER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.2%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of +0.3 points.
In the broader community, Harris County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 FISHER EL is one.
The closest other public school is PARK VIEW INT, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FISHER EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.9%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 24%: 748 students in 2018 compared to 566 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.
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