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What's the biggest difference between GALENA PARK ISD CAREER & TECHNICAL ECHS and what you expected?
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Enrollment
487
High
DISTRICT 1,138 · STATE 796
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GALENA PARK ISD·NCES 482025013711
Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS
5800 UVALDE, HOUSTON, TX 77049 · (281) 459-7198 · Harris County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL487 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 87% of Texas public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public high schools
Student : Teacher
29.9:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.9:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
420 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 139 | 29% |
| Grade 10 | 132 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 114 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 102 | 21% |
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
92.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +27.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
73.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +20.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 20 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 20.0% | 72.0% | 6.0% | 2.0% |
| Mathematics | 32.0% | 41.0% | 26.0% | 1.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 92.0% | 73.0% |
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 60.0% |
| 2023-24 | 85.0% | 60.0% |
| 2022-23 | 75.0% | 74.0% |
| 2021-22 | 63.0% | 59.0% |
| 2020-21 | 65.0% | 53.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
74.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.9%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+37.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 37% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 37 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS
Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS's state test result (74.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS this school | 487 | 86.2% | 74.1% |
| IDEA Ingram Hills College Preparatory SAN ANTONIO | 543 | 85.8% | 48.8% |
| North Houston Early College High School HOUSTON | 489 | 87.9% | 85.0% |
| Wayside Sci-Tech Middle and High School AUSTIN | 554 | 88.3% | 26.6% |
| KIPP Austin Brave AUSTIN | 490 | 88.6% | 36.0% |
| World Languages Institute FORT WORTH | 520 | 83.1% | 43.6% |
Matched among Texas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.1% | #165 of 1,385 | #27 of 150 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #116 of 1,425 ▲ 113 | #25 of 155 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 92.0% | #50 of 1,425 ▲ 74 | #12 of 155 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +8.0pp | #878 of 1,184 | #125 of 151 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 487 | #911 of 2,107 | #132 of 223 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 29.9:1 | #1,335 of 1,344 | #155 of 157 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.9% | #1,130 of 1,346 | #133 of 157 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.2% | #275 of 1,522 | #66 of 175 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
487
+10 (+2%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
29.9:1
was 31.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 487 | 16.3 | 29.9:1 | 86% (420) |
| 2023-24 | 494 | 14.4 | 34.3:1 | 88% (433) |
| 2022-23 | 464 | 15 | 30.9:1 | 88% (407) |
| 2020-21 | 477 | 15 | 31.8:1 | 87% (413) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS.
About Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS
Federal records list Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS as a high school in HOUSTON, Texas. It reports enrollment of 487 students in grades 9 through 12. Across high schools in Texas, the average enrollment is about 796.
Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS is in GALENA PARK ISD, a district with 20,862 students across 26 schools.
Hispanic students account for 91% of the school's enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 4% Black and 4% White. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 44%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 17, compared with 70 nationally.
Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS reported 16.3 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 29.9:1. High schools in Texas have an average ratio of 15.1:1. Roughly 86% of students at Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 70% average for public schools in Harris County.
Among Texas public high schools, Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS outscored 87%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
After accounting for student poverty, Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS is in the top 10% of Texas schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results of 74.1% is 37.2 points above the 36.9% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Census data for Harris County show the median household earns about $74,983 a year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of people live in poverty. Counting Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS, Harris County has 1,205 public schools.
Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS is about 0.5 miles from North Shore Senior High, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS is 1st of 9 on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment went from 477 in 2020-21 to 487 in 2024-25, a change of 10 students. The ratio of students to teachers went from 31.8:1 to 29.9:1 over the same years.
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Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GALENA PARK ISD
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Galena Park High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- North Shore Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,299 students
- Cobb 6th Grade CampusMiddle · 991 students
- North Shore Elementary SchoolElementary · 965 students
- Galena Park Middle SchoolMiddle · 896 students
Other schools in HOUSTON
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Elsik High SchoolHigh · 4,057 students
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Hastings High SchoolHigh · 3,786 students
- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Nearby schools
- North Shore Senior High0.5 mi · 4,284
- North Shore Middle School0.6 mi · 1,299
- James B Havard Elementary School0.7 mi · 694
- Cobb 6th Grade Campus0.8 mi · 991
- Dr Shirley J Williamson Elementary School0.8 mi · 621
- Purple Sage Elementary School0.9 mi · 428
Frequently asked questions
About Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHSWhat is the total enrollment at Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS?
Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS enrolls approximately 487 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS serve?
Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS have?
Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS employs 16 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 29.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS?
Student demographics at Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS are roughly 4% White, 91% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS public or private?
Galena Park ISD Career & Technical ECHS is a public K-12 school, overseen by GALENA PARK ISD.
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