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ROBINSON EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 28 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROBINSON EL
Set in HOUSTON, Texas, ROBINSON EL is an intimate elementary-level community, overseen by HOUSTON ISD. It caters to 401 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% leaner than the state mean of about 519.
Within HOUSTON ISD, which oversees 273 schools and 176,727 students, ROBINSON EL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, ROBINSON EL logs that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ROBINSON EL has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.
With demographic context factored in, ROBINSON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.0%, the actual is 39.3%, a residual of +8.3 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which ROBINSON EL is one.
NORMANDY CROSSING EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROBINSON EL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Trend over the last 7 years. ROBINSON EL's enrollment has shrank 26% since 2018, when it stood at 543 (now 401). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 22% to 14% over that span.
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