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OGDEN EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout OGDEN EL
OGDEN EL operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within ALDINE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 584 students spanning grades 1 through 5.
ALDINE ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 56,419 students; OGDEN EL is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, OGDEN EL shows that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 48% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, OGDEN EL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting OGDEN EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 85% of students at OGDEN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OGDEN EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 37.0%; OGDEN EL posts 19.9%, -17.1 points below that line.
Across the wider county, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which OGDEN EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: MAGRILL EC/PK/K, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OGDEN EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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