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LEMM EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 54 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 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 LEMM EL
LEMM EL is a reasonably sized primary school in KLEIN, Texas, overseen by KLEIN ISD. The school teaches 618 students in grades pre-K through 5.
KLEIN ISD comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 52,437 students; LEMM EL is among them.
In terms of who attends, LEMM EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 28% White, 22% Black, 9% Asian, 3% multiracial.
On the resource side, On paper, LEMM EL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 48% of students at LEMM EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Harris County's rate of about 70%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, LEMM EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.1%, the actual is 49.6%, a residual of -3.5 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which LEMM EL is one.
The closest other public school is SPRING H S, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LEMM EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.0%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEMM EL has declined 10%, going from 683 students in 2018 to 618 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 40% to 28%.
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