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GIESINGER EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 GIESINGER EL
GIESINGER EL is a moderately sized elementary school in CONROE, Texas, part of CONROE ISD. The school educates 713 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so GIESINGER EL sits 37% above that benchmark.
CONROE ISD comprises 66 schools with combined enrollment of 72,914 students; GIESINGER EL is among them.
In terms of who attends, GIESINGER EL records that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 28% Hispanic, 20% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, GIESINGER EL has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, GIESINGER EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 54.5%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,701 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), of which GIESINGER EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: CRYAR INT, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GIESINGER EL at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 51.6%.
The school occupies an urban site.
Looking at the recent track record. GIESINGER EL's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 702 (now 713). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 59% to 40%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.
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