LOOSCAN EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 23 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% 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 LOOSCAN EL
LOOSCAN EL, a cozy K-5 school in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within HOUSTON ISD, serves 229 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so LOOSCAN EL sits 56% below that benchmark.
LOOSCAN EL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that enrolls 176,727 students overall.
In terms of who attends, LOOSCAN EL logs that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 10% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, LOOSCAN EL has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LOOSCAN EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.4%; this one delivers 42.5%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that median household income runs about $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which LOOSCAN EL is one.
MARTINEZ C EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LOOSCAN EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting.
Over the past 7-year window. LOOSCAN EL's enrollment has edged down 35% since 2018, when it stood at 352 (now 229). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 94% to 88%.
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