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Enrollment
584
Elementary
DISTRICT 638 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT BEND ISD·NCES 481965001824
Quail Valley Elementary School
3500 QUAIL VILLAGE DR, MISSOURI CITY, TX 77459 · (281) 634-5040 · Fort Bend County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL584 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 41% of Texas public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-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
13.8:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
340 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 | 118 | 20% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
72%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
54.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +10.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
45.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +7.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 10 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 25.0% | 29.0% | 21.0% | 25.0% |
| Mathematics | 17.0% | 28.0% | 23.0% | 32.0% |
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 | 54.0% | 45.0% |
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 43.0% |
| 2022-23 | 47.0% | 40.0% |
| 2021-22 | 56.0% | 48.0% |
| 2020-21 | 44.0% | 38.0% |
% 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
43.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 Quail Valley Elementary School
Quail Valley Elementary School's state test result (43.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quail Valley Elementary School this school | 584 | 58.2% | 43.5% |
| Comanche Springs Elementary School FORT WORTH | 628 | 52.5% | 34.5% |
| Iltexas Pearland Elementary School PEARLAND | 602 | 60.3% | 30.8% |
| Regina Howell Elementary School BEAUMONT | 742 | 60.5% | 48.6% |
| Providence Elementary School AUBREY | 678 | 53.8% | 26.6% |
| Herod Elementary School HOUSTON | 682 | 58.8% | 46.4% |
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 Quail Valley Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Fort Bend County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.5% | #2,155 of 4,401 | #87 of 113 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #2,282 of 4,466 ▲ 161 | #87 of 113 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #2,040 of 4,466 ▼ 31 | #84 of 113 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.0pp | #1,992 of 3,998 | #39 of 104 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 584 | #1,735 of 4,938 | #77 of 119 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #1,379 of 4,622 | #42 of 116 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.7% | #364 of 4,628 | #44 of 116 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.2% | #3,205 of 4,789 | #45 of 117 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +21.7% | #382 of 1,307 | #17 of 34 |
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
584
+105 (+22%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 784
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 584 | 42.2 | 13.8:1 | 58% (340) |
| 2023-24 | 590 | 42.8 | 13.8:1 | 59% (351) |
| 2022-23 | 564 | 45.2 | 12.5:1 | 64% (361) |
| 2020-21 | 479 | 43 | 11.1:1 | 55% (262) |
| 2017-18 | 480 | 35.4 | 13.6:1 | 40% (191) |
| 2015-16 | 542 | 36 | 15.1:1 | 34% (185) |
| 2010-11 | 625 | 37 | 16.9:1 | 31% (191) |
| 2000-01 | 635 | 39 | 16.3:1 | 37% (238) |
| 1990-91 | 784 | 41 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Quail Valley Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 22% (480 to 584); teachers up 19% (35.4 to 42.2).
About Quail Valley Elementary School
Quail Valley Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in MISSOURI CITY, Texas. The latest federal count shows 584 students in pre-K through 5.
Quail Valley Elementary School sits within FORT BEND ISD, which has 83 schools and 79,663 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Quail Valley Elementary School. The largest is Black students, at 39%. It is also 31% Hispanic, 15% White, 7% Asian, and 7% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Fort Bend County is roughly 21% Black. Quail Valley Elementary School's diversity index is 72%, against a US figure of 70%.
Quail Valley Elementary School employs 42.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 13.8:1. This ratio sits 1.3 below the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 58% in 2024-25. The gap from the 42% average for public schools in Fort Bend County is 16 points.
The allk12 Grade for Quail Valley Elementary School is C+. Compared with Texas public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 41% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Quail Valley Elementary School is 48.8%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 43.5%.
Fort Bend County census figures show that the median household income is $114,041, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 217 public schools in Fort Bend County, enrolling about 191,372 students in all.
Dr Lynn Armstrong Elementary School is the public school closest to Quail Valley Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Quail Valley Elementary School ranks 6th of 8 on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Quail Valley Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is up 22% from 2020-21, when Quail Valley Elementary School had 479 students, to 2024-25, when it had 584. Its ratio of students to teachers was 11.1:1 in 2020-21, and 13.8:1 in 2024-25.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 MISSOURI CITY
- Lawrence E Elkins High SchoolHigh · 2,848 students
- Ridge Point High SchoolHigh · 2,816 students
- Hightower High SchoolHigh · 2,312 students
- Ronald Thornton Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,760 students
- Thurgood Marshall High SchoolHigh · 1,698 students
- Billy Baines Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,383 students
Other Quail Valley Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Quail Valley Elementary. Quail Valley Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Quail Valley ElementaryQuail Valley, CA · 528 students
- Quail Valley ElementaryPalmdale, CA · 503 students
Nearby schools
- Dr Lynn Armstrong Elementary School0.7 mi · 517
- Quail Valley Middle School0.8 mi · 1,002
- Lexington Creek Elementary School1.3 mi · 506
- Stafford Middle School1.5 mi · 678
- Stafford High School1.5 mi · 1,108
- Stafford STEM Magnet Academy1.6 mi · 345
Frequently asked questions
About Quail Valley Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Quail Valley Elementary School?
Quail Valley Elementary School enrolls approximately 584 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Quail Valley Elementary School serve?
Quail Valley Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Quail Valley Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Quail Valley Elementary School is approximately 13.8:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Quail Valley Elementary School?
Student demographics at Quail Valley Elementary School are roughly 15% White, 31% Hispanic, 39% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Quail Valley Elementary School public or private?
Quail Valley 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.