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KNOX J H
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 30 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 KNOX J H
Set in THE WOODLANDS, Texas, KNOX J H is a big middle-grades school, part of CONROE ISD. It caters to 1,395 students across grades 7 through 8. That puts it 117% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
CONROE ISD runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 72,914 students. KNOX J H is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, KNOX J H shows that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 9% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 31% of students at KNOX J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, KNOX J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.5%, the actual is 71.8%, a residual of +11.3 points.
In the area at large, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,701 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. KNOX J H is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students).
Nearest neighbor: WILKERSON INT, around 0.2 miles off. 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), KNOX J H ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.3%.
The school occupies an urban site.
Five-year trend. KNOX J H's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 1,415 (now 1,395). The White share of enrollment fell from 55% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.
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