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ROBERTS ROAD EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% 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 ROBERTS ROAD EL
Located at 24920 ZUBE RD, in HOCKLEY, Texas, ROBERTS ROAD EL is a mid-sized elementary-level community that teaches 595 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of WALLER ISD.
ROBERTS ROAD EL is one of 11 schools operated by WALLER ISD, a district that instructs 9,905 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, ROBERTS ROAD EL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder is composed of 15% Black, 14% White, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, ROBERTS ROAD EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.5%.
In the area at large, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), ROBERTS ROAD EL is one campus in the mix.
BRYAN LOWE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ROBERTS ROAD EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.7%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROBERTS ROAD EL has contracted 15%, going from 702 students in 2018 to 595 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 22% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.
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