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MCGOWN EL · CYPRESS, TX
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STAAR, SY 2023-24

All grades, all students. % Meets Grade Level or Above.
Reading
81.0%
State avg 51.8%
District avg 59.5%
County avg 49.3%
+6.0pp since 2022-23
Mathematics
75.0%
State avg 42.0%
District avg 47.3%
County avg 41.7%
-7.0pp since 2022-23
Science
58.0%
State avg 35.6%
District avg 42.4%
County avg 33.0%
-11.0pp since 2022-23
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 45.8%
District avg 54.9%
County avg 42.9%

What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level, about 75 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 58 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52, 42, and 36. Reading scores are up about 6 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 7 points and science scores are down about 11 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
74.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.9%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.3pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

2-year history

All grades, all students. MCGOWN   Texas avg

Reading

42752022-2352812023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2481.0%59.5%49.3%51.8%
SY 2022-2375.0%48.2%41.9%42.0%

Mathematics

39822022-2342752023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2475.0%47.3%41.7%42.0%
SY 2022-2382.0%45.5%40.4%39.4%

Science

32692022-2336582023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2458.0%42.4%33.0%35.6%
SY 2022-2369.0%42.2%31.5%31.6%

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How to read these scores

What is STAAR?
STAAR (the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) is the annual statewide test used by all Texas public schools. Students in grades 3 through 8 take it in reading and math, with science added in grades 5 and 8 and social studies in grade 8. High school students take End-of-Course (EOC) STAAR exams in Algebra I, English I, English II, Biology, and U.S. History.
What does "% Meets Grade Level or Above" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school whose scores reached or exceeded the "Meets Grade Level" threshold on the test. Texas reports four performance levels (Did Not Meet, Approaches, Meets, Masters). "Meets" and above means the student is performing at grade level or above. A higher number is better.
What does 81.0% mean for Reading at MCGOWN EL?
It means about 81.0 percent of students tested at MCGOWN EL performed at grade level or above on the STAAR Reading test in 2023-24. The statewide average for Texas that year was 51.8%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Texas, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Texas Education Agency, State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), via the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR). School-level All Students subgroup. Headline metric is the cumulative "Meets Grade Level or Above" rate.
How often is it updated?
STAAR is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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