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IMPACT EARLY COLLEGE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 22 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 46% 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 30 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About IMPACT EARLY COLLEGE H S
IMPACT EARLY COLLEGE H S is one of the cozy high schools in BAYTOWN, Texas, overseen by GOOSE CREEK CISD, with 413 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 48% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
GOOSE CREEK CISD comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 24,032 students; IMPACT EARLY COLLEGE H S is among them.
On demographics, IMPACT EARLY COLLEGE H S lists that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 11% Black, 10% White, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting IMPACT EARLY COLLEGE H S higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), IMPACT EARLY COLLEGE H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 45.8%; actual is 75.5%, +29.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which IMPACT EARLY COLLEGE H S is one.
The closest other public school is LEE H S, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IMPACT EARLY COLLEGE H S. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IMPACT EARLY COLLEGE H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 32.9%.
IMPACT EARLY COLLEGE H S operates from an inner-city location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at IMPACT EARLY COLLEGE H S has climbed 7%, going from 385 students in 2018 to 413 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 in 2025.
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Harris County at a glance
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