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HOLLIBROOK EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 HOLLIBROOK EL
HOLLIBROOK EL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in HOUSTON, Texas, run under SPRING BRANCH ISD. The school works with 636 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% larger than the state mean of about 519.
SPRING BRANCH ISD comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 33,793 students; HOLLIBROOK EL is among them.
Looking at the student body, HOLLIBROOK EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 99% of students at HOLLIBROOK EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HOLLIBROOK EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.7%.
Across the wider county, Harris County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. HOLLIBROOK EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
The closest other public school is THE PANDA PATH SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HOLLIBROOK EL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.
HOLLIBROOK EL operates from a downtown location.
Five-year trend. HOLLIBROOK EL's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 763 (now 636). Class-load math has loosened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.
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