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ROOSEVELT ALEXANDER 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 82 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 63% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROOSEVELT ALEXANDER EL
ROOSEVELT ALEXANDER EL is one of the big elementary schools in KATY, Texas, overseen by KATY ISD, with 968 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 87% larger than the state mean of about 519.
Within KATY ISD, which oversees 78 schools and 96,111 students, ROOSEVELT ALEXANDER EL is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, ROOSEVELT ALEXANDER EL records that the most-represented group is Asian (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% White, 18% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fort Bend County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, ROOSEVELT ALEXANDER EL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 62.8%; this one delivers 77.3%, a residual of +14.5 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Fort Bend County indicate median household earnings sit near $114,041, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. ROOSEVELT ALEXANDER EL is one of 217 public schools in Fort Bend County (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students).
HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-KATY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROOSEVELT ALEXANDER EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 74.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Looking at the recent track record. ROOSEVELT ALEXANDER EL's enrollment has fell 3% since 2018, when it stood at 993 (now 968). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 39% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Fort Bend County at a glance
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