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POMEROY EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About POMEROY EL
POMEROY EL operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in PASADENA, Texas, operated by PASADENA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 769 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 48% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
PASADENA ISD runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 46,491 students. POMEROY EL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, POMEROY EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). The remainder comes out to 5% White, 5% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, POMEROY EL logs 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
With demographic context factored in, POMEROY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.0%.
In the surrounding community, Harris County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. POMEROY EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
The closest other public school is RED BLUFF EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts POMEROY EL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 38.1%.
The school occupies an inner-city site.
Five-year trend. POMEROY EL's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 890 (now 769). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 95% to 89%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.
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