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ODESSA KILPATRICK EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 16 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 ODESSA KILPATRICK EL
ODESSA KILPATRICK EL, a well-populated elementary school in KATY, Texas, operated by KATY ISD, enrolls 968 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 87% above the state mean of about 519.
KATY ISD comprises 78 schools with combined enrollment of 96,111 students; ODESSA KILPATRICK EL is among them.
On demographics, ODESSA KILPATRICK EL lists that the largest single group is Asian at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 30% White, 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, ODESSA KILPATRICK EL lists 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Fort Bend County's rate of about 42%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ODESSA KILPATRICK EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.0%; this one delivers 79.4%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Fort Bend County indicate median household income runs about $114,041, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Fort Bend County runs 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), of which ODESSA KILPATRICK EL is one.
The closest other public school is TOMPKINS H S, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ODESSA KILPATRICK EL. On composite proficiency, ODESSA KILPATRICK EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 81.0%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Trend over the last 7 years. ODESSA KILPATRICK EL's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 1,194 (now 968). Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 33% to 40%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.
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