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LEON H SABLATURA MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% 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 14 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LEON H SABLATURA MIDDLE
LEON H SABLATURA MIDDLE is a mid-sized middle school in PEARLAND, Texas, part of PEARLAND ISD. The school educates 878 students in grades 5 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 37% bigger than typical.
PEARLAND ISD comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 20,862 students; LEON H SABLATURA MIDDLE is among them.
On demographics, LEON H SABLATURA MIDDLE lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 22% White, 21% Asian, 10% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Brazoria County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Brazoria County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LEON H SABLATURA MIDDLE sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 58.8%; actual is 72.8%, +14.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Brazoria County) reports that median household earnings sit near $97,993, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Brazoria County runs 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), of which LEON H SABLATURA MIDDLE is one.
PEARLAND J H WEST is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LEON H SABLATURA MIDDLE at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 58.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEON H SABLATURA MIDDLE has grew 6%, going from 830 students in 2018 to 878 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 31% to 22% over that span.
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Brazoria County at a glance
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