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KUJAWA EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 KUJAWA EL
KUJAWA EL operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by ALDINE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 562 students spanning grades 1 through 5.
ALDINE ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 56,419 students. KUJAWA EL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, KUJAWA EL lists that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 23% Black, 2% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KUJAWA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.7%, the actual is 27.8%, a residual of -8.9 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Harris County) records that median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), KUJAWA EL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is KUJAWA EC/PK/K, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, KUJAWA EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.
KUJAWA EL operates from an outer-ring location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 42%: 971 students in 2018 compared to 562 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 34% to 23% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, the feed for KUJAWA EL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Harris County at a glance
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