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GRAND OAKS H S
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 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 OAKS H S
GRAND OAKS H S is one of the big high schools in SPRING, Texas, part of CONROE ISD, with 3,836 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 382% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
Within CONROE ISD, which oversees 66 schools and 72,914 students, GRAND OAKS H S is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, GRAND OAKS H S records that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 27% Hispanic, 16% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 211 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, GRAND OAKS H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 69.6%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,701 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), GRAND OAKS H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: HINES EL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GRAND OAKS H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GRAND OAKS H S at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 66.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
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