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Enrollment
824
Elementary
DISTRICT 638 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT BEND ISD·NCES 481965008212
Oyster Creek Elementary School
16425 MELLOW OAKS LN, SUGAR LAND, TX 77498 · (281) 634-5910 · Fort Bend County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL824 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of Texas public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
513 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 43 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 109 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 108 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 126 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 127 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 150 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 161 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (109) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (161).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from FORT BEND ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
68.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +27.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
62.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +21.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 21 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 36.0% | 32.0% | 18.0% | 14.0% |
| Mathematics | 33.0% | 29.0% | 22.0% | 16.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 68.0% | 62.0% |
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 65.0% | 59.0% |
| 2022-23 | 63.0% | 58.0% |
| 2021-22 | 66.0% | 53.0% |
| 2020-21 | 41.0% | 41.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
55.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.1%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Oyster Creek Elementary School
Oyster Creek Elementary School's state test result (55.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oyster Creek Elementary School this school | 824 | 62.3% | 55.5% |
| Harmony School of Innovation- Euless EULESS | 708 | 55.1% | 63.6% |
| Parkview Elementary School FORT WORTH | 618 | 65.0% | 41.0% |
| Harmony School of Science - Austin AUSTIN | 486 | 56.4% | 55.0% |
| Harmony School of Excellence - Sugar Land SUGAR LAND | 1,471 | 57.9% | 69.6% |
| Arlyne & Alan Weber Elementary School HOUSTON | 742 | 49.6% | 66.8% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Oyster Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Fort Bend County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #1,027 of 4,401 | #60 of 113 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #811 of 4,466 ▲ 255 | #53 of 113 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #824 of 4,466 ▲ 507 | #60 of 113 ▲ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.5pp | #2,200 of 3,998 | #44 of 104 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 824 | #368 of 4,938 | #38 of 119 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #3,172 of 4,622 | #69 of 116 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.2% | #107 of 4,628 | #18 of 116 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.3% | #3,000 of 4,789 | #39 of 117 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.8% | #2,630 of 2,838 | #56 of 61 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
824
-28 (-3%) vs 2020
+6% since 2000-01, when it was 777
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 13.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 824 | 52 | 15.8:1 | 62% (513) |
| 2023-24 | 826 | 52 | 15.9:1 | 64% (527) |
| 2022-23 | 795 | 49.2 | 16.2:1 | 60% (477) |
| 2020-21 | 852 | 63 | 13.5:1 | 48% (410) |
| 2017-18 | 848 | 49.4 | 17.2:1 | 38% (323) |
| 2015-16 | 784 | 49 | 16.0:1 | 30% (238) |
| 2010-11 | 775 | 48 | 16.1:1 | 31% (237) |
| 2000-01 | 777 | 44 | 17.7:1 | 8% (66) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oyster Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (848 to 824); teachers up 5% (49.4 to 52).
About Oyster Creek Elementary School
Oyster Creek Elementary School is a large elementary school in SUGAR LAND, Texas. Enrollment totals 824 students across pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in Texas enroll around 519, and this school is 59% bigger than that mark.
FORT BEND ISD is made up of 83 schools with 79,663 students in all.
About 35% of students at Oyster Creek Elementary School are Asian, the largest single group. It is also 23% Black, 22% Hispanic, 15% White, and 5% multiracial. Fort Bend County's residents are about 22% Asian, 13 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 75, compared with 70 nationally.
Oyster Creek Elementary School lists 52 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 15.8 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Texas, the average ratio is 15.1:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 62% of the student body. The 42% average for public schools in Fort Bend County is 20 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, Oyster Creek Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 80% of Texas public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Oyster Creek Elementary School is +8.4 points: 55.5% actual, 47.1% predicted.
In the wider Fort Bend County area, median household income comes to about $114,041, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Fort Bend County's 217 public schools enroll about 191,372 students and include Oyster Creek Elementary School.
Stephen F Austin High School is the nearest public school to Oyster Creek Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 66.6%, higher than Oyster Creek Elementary School's 55.5%.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 824, down from 852 in 2020-21. The school's ratio increased from 13.5:1 to 15.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Oyster Creek Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Fort Bend County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
893,767
Census ACS
Median income
$114,041
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
217
191,372 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT BEND ISD
- William B Travis High SchoolHigh · 3,114 students
- Lawrence E Elkins High SchoolHigh · 2,848 students
- Ridge Point High SchoolHigh · 2,816 students
- Stephen F Austin High SchoolHigh · 2,655 students
- Clements High SchoolHigh · 2,641 students
- George Bush High SchoolHigh · 2,428 students
Other schools in SUGAR LAND
- Stephen F Austin High SchoolHigh · 2,655 students
- Clements High SchoolHigh · 2,641 students
- Dulles High SchoolHigh · 2,165 students
- Kempner High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Fort Settlement Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,504 students
- Harmony School of Excellence - Sugar LandElementary · 1,471 students
Nearby schools
- Stephen F Austin High School0.5 mi · 2,655
- Macario Garcia Middle School1.0 mi · 1,443
- Carolyn and Vernon Madden Elementary School1.4 mi · 924
- Sst Sugar Land College Prep High School1.5 mi · 125
- Sst Sugarland1.5 mi · 739
- Kempner High School1.7 mi · 1,850
Frequently asked questions
About Oyster Creek Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Oyster Creek Elementary School?
Oyster Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 824 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Oyster Creek Elementary School serve?
Oyster Creek Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Oyster Creek Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Oyster Creek Elementary School is approximately 15.8:1 (52 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Oyster Creek Elementary School?
At Oyster Creek Elementary School, the student body is approximately 15% White, 22% Hispanic, 23% Black, 35% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Oyster Creek Elementary School public or private?
Oyster Creek Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by FORT BEND ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.