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NEEDVILLE EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 49 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 43 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NEEDVILLE EL
NEEDVILLE EL, a well-populated elementary campus in NEEDVILLE, Texas, overseen by NEEDVILLE ISD, works with 1,121 students, covering grades pre-K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 116% above the state mean of about 519.
Across the 4 schools in NEEDVILLE ISD (3,650 students total), NEEDVILLE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, NEEDVILLE EL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 40% White, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, NEEDVILLE EL lists 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, NEEDVILLE EL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 53.0%; this one delivers 69.0%, a residual of +16.0 points.
In the area at large, census data for Fort Bend County shows median household earnings sit near $114,041, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. NEEDVILLE EL is one of 217 public schools in Fort Bend County (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students).
Nearest neighbor: NEEDVILLE MIDDLE, around 2.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NEEDVILLE EL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.8%.
NEEDVILLE EL operates from an outlying location.
Trend over the last 7 years. NEEDVILLE EL's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 1,255 (now 1,121). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 47% to 40% over that span.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Fort Bend County at a glance
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