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NEEDVILLE H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 48 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 1 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 NEEDVILLE H S
NEEDVILLE H S operates as a mid-tier secondary school in NEEDVILLE, Texas, one of the schools within NEEDVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,111 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 40% larger than typical.
NEEDVILLE ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 3,650 students; NEEDVILLE H S is among them.
Looking at the student body, NEEDVILLE H S lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 46% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Fort Bend County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, NEEDVILLE H S lists 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NEEDVILLE H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.5%.
Zooming out to the county, Fort Bend County reports that median household earnings sit near $114,041, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fort Bend County runs 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), of which NEEDVILLE H S is one.
NEEDVILLE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NEEDVILLE H S comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.
NEEDVILLE H S operates from an outlying location.
Looking at the recent track record. NEEDVILLE H S's enrollment has edged up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,044 (now 1,111). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 52% to 46%.
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