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HOFIUS INT
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 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 40 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 23 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 HOFIUS INT
HOFIUS INT is a well-populated middle-grades school in KLEIN, Texas, overseen by KLEIN ISD. The school caters to 1,313 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so HOFIUS INT sits 104% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 50 schools in KLEIN ISD (52,437 students total), HOFIUS INT accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, HOFIUS INT shows that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 36% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, HOFIUS INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.2%, the actual is 66.6%, a residual of +8.4 points.
Across the wider county, 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. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), HOFIUS INT is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: METZLER EL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HOFIUS INT comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 66.5%.
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