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NORTHEAST EARLY COLLEGE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 8 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 have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 NORTHEAST EARLY COLLEGE H S
Set in AUSTIN, Texas, NORTHEAST EARLY COLLEGE H S is a mid-sized secondary school, one of the schools within AUSTIN ISD. It educates 972 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 22% above the state mean of about 796.
Across the 123 schools in AUSTIN ISD (72,272 students total), NORTHEAST EARLY COLLEGE H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, NORTHEAST EARLY COLLEGE H S records that nearly all students (86%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 8% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, NORTHEAST EARLY COLLEGE H S has 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, NORTHEAST EARLY COLLEGE H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.8%; this one delivers 23.0%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate median household income runs about $99,611, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which NORTHEAST EARLY COLLEGE H S is one.
The closest other public school is INTERNATIONAL H S, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NORTHEAST EARLY COLLEGE H S at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 30.8%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. NORTHEAST EARLY COLLEGE H S's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 1,252 (now 972). Hispanic enrollment moved from 79% to 86% across the same window.
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