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JACK M FIELDS SR EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 1 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JACK M FIELDS SR EL
JACK M FIELDS SR EL, a medium-sized elementary campus in HUMBLE, Texas, operated by HUMBLE ISD, enrolls 638 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so JACK M FIELDS SR EL sits 23% above that benchmark.
HUMBLE ISD runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 48,502 students. JACK M FIELDS SR EL is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, JACK M FIELDS SR EL logs that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 31% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting JACK M FIELDS SR EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, JACK M FIELDS SR EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.5%; this one delivers 24.9%.
In the broader community, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. JACK M FIELDS SR EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
Nearest neighbor: RIVER PINES EL, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JACK M FIELDS SR EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Over the past 7-year window. JACK M FIELDS SR EL's enrollment has increased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 519 (now 638). Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.
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