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ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM MIDDLE
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM MIDDLE
As a compact middle school in HOUSTON, Texas, ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM MIDDLE enrolls 410 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF TEXAS (ILTEXAS). By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM MIDDLE sits 36% smaller than that benchmark.
INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF TEXAS (ILTEXAS) comprises 44 schools with combined enrollment of 25,497 students; ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM MIDDLE is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM MIDDLE logs that the most-represented group is Black (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 45% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM MIDDLE has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
With demographic context factored in, ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.8%, the actual is 23.8%, a residual of -11.0 points.
In the surrounding community, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM MIDDLE is one.
Nearest neighbor: ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM EL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM MIDDLE at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 22.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. As a public charter, ILTEXAS HOUSTON OREM MIDDLE runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
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