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MCDOUGLE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % 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 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 4 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% 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 MCDOUGLE EL
MCDOUGLE EL is one of the reasonably sized elementary-level communitys in KLEIN, Texas, overseen by KLEIN ISD, with 612 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.
Across the 50 schools in KLEIN ISD (52,437 students total), MCDOUGLE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, MCDOUGLE EL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 79%. Beyond that, the school shows 12% Black, 5% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, MCDOUGLE EL lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.
After controlling for student poverty, MCDOUGLE EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.6%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Harris County) records that median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which MCDOUGLE EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: THE GRACE ENGLAND EARLY CHILDHOOD/PRE-K CENTER, around 0.1 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), MCDOUGLE EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.2%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Over the past 7-year window. MCDOUGLE EL's enrollment has increased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 573 (now 612). Hispanic enrollment moved from 69% to 79% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.
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