O'HARA LANIER 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 43 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 O'HARA LANIER EL
O'HARA LANIER EL is an elementary campus of reasonably sized scale in FREEPORT, Texas, one of the schools within BRAZOSPORT ISD, educateing 456 students in grades 3 through 5.
Across the 18 schools in BRAZOSPORT ISD (11,169 students total), O'HARA LANIER EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, O'HARA LANIER EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.
On the resource side, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Brazoria County's rate of about 50%.
After controlling for student poverty, O'HARA LANIER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.6%; this one delivers 37.2%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Brazoria County put median household income runs about $97,993, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Brazoria County runs 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), of which O'HARA LANIER EL is one.
The closest other public school is BRAZOSPORT H S, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around O'HARA LANIER EL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), O'HARA LANIER EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.0%.
O'HARA LANIER EL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 3%: 441 students in 2018 compared to 456 in 2025.
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