STAAR, SY 2025-26
All grades, all students. % Meets Grade Level or Above.Reading
50.0%
State avg 54.5%
District avg 59.7%
County avg 53.6%
-7.0pp since 2020-21
Mathematics
51.0%
State avg 45.3%
District avg 61.3%
County avg 46.8%
-16.0pp since 2020-21
Science
26.0%
State avg 46.6%
District avg 47.0%
County avg 46.3%
-6.0pp since 2020-21
Social Studies
19.0%
State avg 47.2%
District avg 44.0%
County avg 47.1%
-42.0pp since 2020-21
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level, about 51 of 100 do math at grade level, about 26 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 19 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 down about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 16 points, science scores are down about 6 points, and social studies scores are down about 42 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
59.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.1%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 37% 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 23 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 →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 50.0% mean for Reading at HOUSTON GATEWAY ACADEMY?
It means about 50.0 percent of students tested at HOUSTON GATEWAY ACADEMY 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.
