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SALYERS EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SALYERS EL
SALYERS EL, a medium-sized K-5 school in SPRING, Texas, operated by SPRING ISD, serves 484 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
SPRING ISD runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 33,678 students. SALYERS EL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, SALYERS EL records that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment; the rest looks like 31% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SALYERS EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 36.3%; SALYERS EL posts 14.4%, -21.9 points below that line.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate 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), SALYERS EL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is CARL WUNSCHE SR H S, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SALYERS EL. On composite proficiency, SALYERS EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.
SALYERS EL operates from a residential location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 33%: 723 students in 2018 compared to 484 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 8% to 3% across the same window.
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