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ROTH EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat 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 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 25 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 ROTH EL
Located at 21623 CASTLEMONT, in KLEIN, Texas, ROTH EL is a reasonably sized K-5 school that teaches 683 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of KLEIN ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ROTH EL sits 32% larger than that benchmark.
ROTH EL is one of 50 schools operated by KLEIN ISD, a district that enrolls 52,437 students overall.
Looking at the student body, ROTH EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 24% White, 15% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, ROTH EL shows 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ROTH EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROTH EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.4%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Harris County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), ROTH EL is one campus in the mix.
SCHINDEWOLF INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROTH EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROTH EL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 55.5%.
ROTH EL operates from a suburban location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 4%: 709 students in 2018 compared to 683 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 42% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.
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