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HORIZON MONTESSORI PEARLAND - STEM ACADEMY
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout HORIZON MONTESSORI PEARLAND - STEM ACADEMY
HORIZON MONTESSORI PEARLAND - STEM ACADEMY, a modestly sized elementary campus in PEARLAND, Texas, overseen by HORIZON MONTESSORI PUBLIC SCHOOLS, teaches 216 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 58% below typical.
Across the 4 schools in HORIZON MONTESSORI PUBLIC SCHOOLS (1,164 students total), HORIZON MONTESSORI PEARLAND - STEM ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, HORIZON MONTESSORI PEARLAND - STEM ACADEMY records that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 24% Black, 15% White, 10% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Brazoria County (around 50%), the school's rate is north of typical.
After controlling for student poverty, HORIZON MONTESSORI PEARLAND - STEM ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 44.5%, a residual of -1.4 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Brazoria County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,993 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. HORIZON MONTESSORI PEARLAND - STEM ACADEMY is one of 115 public schools in Brazoria County (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students).
The closest other public school is PEARLAND J H WEST, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HORIZON MONTESSORI PEARLAND - STEM ACADEMY comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 62.3%.
HORIZON MONTESSORI PEARLAND - STEM ACADEMY operates from a bedroom-community location. HORIZON MONTESSORI PEARLAND - STEM ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
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