LOTSPEICH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 21 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 LOTSPEICH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Set in ROBSTOWN, Texas, LOTSPEICH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is a small K-5 school, part of ROBSTOWN ISD. It educates 368 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so LOTSPEICH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY sits 29% below that benchmark.
ROBSTOWN ISD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,570 students. LOTSPEICH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one of those campuses.
On demographics, LOTSPEICH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY logs that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Nueces County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, LOTSPEICH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Nueces County (around 67%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LOTSPEICH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.2%.
In the broader community, census data for Nueces County shows median household income runs about $66,897, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Nueces County runs 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students), of which LOTSPEICH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one.
The closest other public school is SAN PEDRO FINE ARTS ACADEMY, roughly 0.8 miles away. 4 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), LOTSPEICH LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.0%.
The school occupies a town-based site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 20%: 306 students in 2018 compared to 368 in 2025.
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