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KERR H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 99 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 88 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 50 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 95% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% 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 52 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About KERR H S
KERR H S is one of the mid-tier 9-12 campuss in HOUSTON, Texas, run under ALIEF ISD, with 807 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.
Within ALIEF ISD, which oversees 46 schools and 38,610 students, KERR H S is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, KERR H S records that the most-represented group is Asian (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 16% Black, 5% White. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, KERR H S has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 69% of students at KERR H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KERR H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 43.9%; actual is 95.4%, +51.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the broader community, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which KERR H S is one.
Nearest neighbor: TAYLOR H S, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KERR H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.9%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.
Five-year trend. KERR H S's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 806 (now 807). The Asian share of enrollment decreased from 65% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.
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