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GRAND LAKES J H
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 GRAND LAKES J H
Located at 20247 CYPRESS ROSEHILL RD, in TOMBALL, Texas, GRAND LAKES J H is a sprawling intermediate school that works with 1,015 students (grades 7 through 8), overseen by TOMBALL ISD. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 58% above typical.
TOMBALL ISD runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 22,913 students. GRAND LAKES J H is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, GRAND LAKES J H shows that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 33% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 7% Black, 5% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GRAND LAKES J H tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.1%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household income runs about $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 GRAND LAKES J H is one.
GRAND OAKS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GRAND LAKES J H. On composite proficiency, GRAND LAKES J H comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 70.4%.
GRAND LAKES J H operates from a small-town location.
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