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NAVARRO MIDDLE
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NAVARRO MIDDLE
NAVARRO MIDDLE is one of the intimate middle-grades schools in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within HOUSTON ISD, with 400 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 38% smaller than the state mean of about 643.
Across the 273 schools in HOUSTON ISD (176,727 students total), NAVARRO MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, NAVARRO MIDDLE records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Other groups include 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NAVARRO MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.2%; this one delivers 29.9%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. NAVARRO MIDDLE is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
The closest other public school is EASTWOOD ACADEMY, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NAVARRO MIDDLE ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.2%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NAVARRO MIDDLE has contracted 44%, going from 710 students in 2018 to 400 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, the feed for NAVARRO MIDDLE typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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