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LA MARQUE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 38 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 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 LA MARQUE H S
Located at 397 DUROUX, in LA MARQUE, Texas, LA MARQUE H S is an average-sized 9-12 campus that hosts 737 students (grades 9 through 12), part of TEXAS CITY ISD.
LA MARQUE H S is one of 15 schools operated by TEXAS CITY ISD, a district that hosts 7,711 students overall.
In terms of who attends, LA MARQUE H S reports that 54% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 36% Hispanic, 7% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Galveston County's rate of about 57%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, LA MARQUE H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 30.6%, a residual of -5.3 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Galveston County shows median household earnings sit near $86,105, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Galveston County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students), of which LA MARQUE H S is one.
Nearest neighbor: IGNITE COMMUNITY SCHOOL - MAINLAND, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LA MARQUE H S ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 25.3%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LA MARQUE H S has edged up 11%, going from 665 students in 2018 to 737 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 20% to 36%.
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