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Test scores

STAAR, SY 2025-26

All grades, all students. % Meets Grade Level or Above.
Reading
97.0%
State avg 54.5%
District avg 65.2%
County avg 60.8%
+13.0pp since 2020-21
Mathematics
68.0%
State avg 45.3%
District avg 61.2%
County avg 54.2%
+1.0pp since 2020-21
Science
98.0%
State avg 46.6%
District avg 63.8%
County avg 52.4%
+4.0pp since 2020-21
Social Studies
96.0%
State avg 47.2%
District avg 43.9%
County avg 42.9%
+32.0pp since 2020-21

What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 97 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level, about 68 of 100 do math at grade level, about 98 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 96 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55, 45, 47, and 47. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 1 points, science scores are up about 4 points, and social studies scores are up about 32 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
91.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+55.7pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 91% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% 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 56 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 →

6-year history

All grades, all students. HECTOR J GARCIA EARLY COLLEGE   Texas avg

Reading

31842020-2142782021-2242692022-2352972023-2453952024-2555972025-26
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2025-2697.0%65.2%60.8%54.5%
SY 2024-2595.0%62.9%59.5%53.3%
SY 2023-2497.0%58.0%57.7%51.8%
SY 2022-2369.0%46.7%47.5%42.0%
SY 2021-2278.0%42.6%44.7%41.8%
SY 2020-2184.0%26.3%27.1%30.6%

Mathematics

30672020-2137852021-2239822022-2342832023-2443792024-2545682025-26
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2025-2668.0%61.2%54.2%45.3%
SY 2024-2579.0%57.8%52.1%43.3%
SY 2023-2483.0%53.2%50.9%42.0%
SY 2022-2382.0%48.2%47.1%39.4%
SY 2021-2285.0%38.8%40.5%37.2%
SY 2020-2167.0%21.5%21.2%29.9%

Science

26942020-2132812021-2232892022-2336902023-2440942024-2547982025-26
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2025-2698.0%63.8%52.4%46.6%
SY 2024-2594.0%55.6%46.6%39.5%
SY 2023-2490.0%43.5%38.2%35.6%
SY 2022-2389.0%43.6%38.5%31.6%
SY 2021-2281.0%38.8%38.2%32.5%
SY 2020-2194.0%20.3%20.3%25.7%

Social Studies

26642020-2129832021-2232912022-2346972023-2445962024-2547962025-26
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2025-2696.0%43.9%42.9%47.2%
SY 2024-2596.0%45.9%40.2%45.1%
SY 2023-2497.0%43.8%42.8%45.8%
SY 2022-2391.0%33.0%30.0%32.4%
SY 2021-2283.0%28.4%26.5%28.7%
SY 2020-2164.0%21.8%20.4%26.4%

How to read these scores

What is STAAR?
STAAR (the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) is the annual statewide test used by all Texas public schools. Students in grades 3 through 8 take it in reading and math, with science added in grades 5 and 8 and social studies in grade 8. High school students take End-of-Course (EOC) STAAR exams in Algebra I, English I, English II, Biology, and U.S. History.
What does "% Meets Grade Level or Above" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school whose scores reached or exceeded the "Meets Grade Level" threshold on the test. Texas reports four performance levels (Did Not Meet, Approaches, Meets, Masters). "Meets" and above means the student is performing at grade level or above. A higher number is better.
What does 97.0% mean for Reading at HECTOR J GARCIA EARLY COLLEGE H S?
It means about 97.0 percent of students tested at HECTOR J GARCIA EARLY COLLEGE H S performed at grade level or above on the STAAR Reading test in 2025-26. The statewide average for Texas that year was 54.5%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Texas, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Texas Education Agency, State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), via the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR). School-level All Students subgroup. Headline metric is the cumulative "Meets Grade Level or Above" rate.
How often is it updated?
STAAR is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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