HOUSTON MATH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, HOUSTON MATH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER is a large high school, run under HOUSTON ISD. It teaches 2,396 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 201% above the state mean of about 796.

Within HOUSTON ISD, which oversees 273 schools and 176,727 students, HOUSTON MATH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER is one campus in the system.

On demographics, HOUSTON MATH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER shows that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 7% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 163 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HOUSTON MATH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.3%, the actual is 28.9%, a residual of -3.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Harris County reports that 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. HOUSTON MATH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

The closest other public school is KIPP 3D ACADEMY, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HOUSTON MATH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 2,795 students in 2018 compared to 2,396 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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