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ROWE MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 22 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
About ROWE MIDDLE
ROWE MIDDLE operates as a big 6-8 campus in CYPRESS, Texas, one of the schools within CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,481 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 130% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
Within CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, which oversees 92 schools and 117,927 students, ROWE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
Demographically, ROWE MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 32% Black, 5% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. 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, The school lists 87 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting ROWE MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, ROWE MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.5%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that median household income runs about $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. ROWE MIDDLE is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
Nearest neighbor: CYPRESS PARK H S, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ROWE MIDDLE comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.
ROWE MIDDLE operates from a low-density location.
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