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SCHULTZ EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 30 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 SCHULTZ EL
SCHULTZ EL is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in KLEIN, Texas, operated by KLEIN ISD, with 707 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% bigger than the state mean of about 519.
Within KLEIN ISD, which oversees 50 schools and 52,437 students, SCHULTZ EL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, SCHULTZ EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% White, 13% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 65% of students at SCHULTZ EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHULTZ EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.5%; this one delivers 55.1%.
In the broader community, Harris County reports that median household earnings sit near $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%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which SCHULTZ EL is one.
SST WILLOWCREEK is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHULTZ EL. On composite proficiency, SCHULTZ EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.1%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. SCHULTZ EL's enrollment has expanded 8% since 2018, when it stood at 655 (now 707). White enrollment moved from 32% to 23% across the same window.
In the discussion threads here, the feed for SCHULTZ EL typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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