REYNOLDS 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 25 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 5 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 REYNOLDS EL
REYNOLDS EL operates as a compact elementary-level community in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by HOUSTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 301 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so REYNOLDS EL sits 42% smaller than that benchmark.
REYNOLDS EL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that hosts 176,727 students overall.
Demographically, REYNOLDS EL records that nearly all students (83%) are Black. The remainder comes out to 15% Hispanic. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, REYNOLDS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 22.9%, a residual of -10.2 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. REYNOLDS EL is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
WORTHING H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), REYNOLDS EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.3%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at REYNOLDS EL has decreased 39%, going from 493 students in 2018 to 301 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 10% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.
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