Enrollment
287
Elementary
DISTRICT 515 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOUSTON ISD·NCES 482364002582
Scroggins Elementary School
400 BOYLES ST, HOUSTON, TX 77020 · (713) 671-4130 · Harris County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL287 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 47% of Texas public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
284 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 45 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 42 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 38 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (41).
Student demographics
6%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Scroggins Elementary School→Mickey Leland College Prep Academy for Young Men
Based on published attendance-zone data from HOUSTON ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
47.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +20.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
40.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +13.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 13 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 21.0% | 26.0% | 27.0% | 26.0% |
| Mathematics | 16.0% | 24.0% | 30.0% | 30.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 47.0% | 40.0% |
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 41.0% |
| 2022-23 | 43.0% | 48.0% |
| 2021-22 | 48.0% | 64.0% |
| 2020-21 | 27.0% | 27.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.4%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Scroggins Elementary School
Scroggins Elementary School's state test result (38.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scroggins Elementary School this school | 287 | 99.0% | 38.3% |
| Travis Elementary School HARLINGEN | 294 | 98.0% | 37.9% |
| Lida Hooe Elementary School DALLAS | 310 | 97.7% | 28.3% |
| Harris J R Elementary School HOUSTON | 288 | 96.2% | 45.5% |
| Roosevelt Dual Language Academy SAN ANTONIO | 282 | 97.2% | 29.5% |
| Raymond Elementary School HOUSTON | 297 | 97.0% | 24.9% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Scroggins Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #2,810 of 4,401 | #382 of 624 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #2,870 of 4,466 ▼ 521 | #409 of 625 ▼ 78 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #2,888 of 4,466 ▼ 420 | #394 of 625 ▼ 62 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.0pp | #972 of 3,998 | #126 of 603 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 287 | #4,275 of 4,938 | #626 of 682 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #546 of 4,622 | #84 of 657 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 6.1% | #4,274 of 4,628 | #639 of 657 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.0% | #83 of 4,789 | #28 of 671 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -48.8% | #57 of 2,838 | #19 of 441 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
287
-111 (-28%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 629
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 13.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 287 | 22.9 | 12.5:1 | 99% (284) |
| 2023-24 | 328 | 22.9 | 14.3:1 | 98% (321) |
| 2022-23 | 335 | 23 | 14.6:1 | 98% (329) |
| 2020-21 | 398 | 29 | 13.7:1 | 94% (375) |
| 2017-18 | 560 | 39.3 | 14.3:1 | 89% (496) |
| 2015-16 | 612 | 37 | 16.5:1 | 89% (543) |
| 2010-11 | 606 | 36 | 16.8:1 | 59% (357) |
| 2000-01 | 575 | 32 | 18.0:1 | 93% (533) |
| 1990-91 | 629 | 36 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Scroggins Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 49% (560 to 287); teachers down 42% (39.3 to 22.9).
About Scroggins Elementary School
Federal records list Scroggins Elementary School as an elementary school in HOUSTON, Texas. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 287 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Texas enroll about 519 students on average.
HOUSTON ISD has a total of 273 schools and 176,727 students, Scroggins Elementary School among them.
A large majority of enrollment at Scroggins Elementary School is Hispanic, at 97%. Beyond that, enrollment is 2% Black. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 44%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Scroggins Elementary School scores 6%.
Scroggins Elementary School reported 22.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 12.5:1. The school's 12.5:1 compares with an average of 15.1:1 for elementary schools in Texas. Roughly 99% of students at Scroggins Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 70% average among public schools in Harris County.
On the allk12 Grade, Scroggins Elementary School lands at B-, ahead of 47% of Texas public elementary schools.
The model predicts 31.4% for a school in Texas with Scroggins Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Scroggins Elementary School posts 38.3%.
For Harris County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $74,983, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. The county has 1,205 public schools and about 886,911 students.
Eliot Elementary School is the nearest public school to Scroggins Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. Within five miles of Scroggins Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 38.3% is above the 38.0% average for nearby schools.
Locale data from NCES put Scroggins Elementary School inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
Enrollment figures show a decrease of 111 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.7:1 to 12.5:1 over the same years.
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Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
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Frequently asked questions
About Scroggins Elementary SchoolHow large is Scroggins Elementary School?
Scroggins Elementary School enrolls approximately 287 students in grades PK-05.
Is Scroggins Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Scroggins Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Scroggins Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Scroggins Elementary School is approximately 12.5:1 (23 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Scroggins Elementary School?
At Scroggins Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 97% Hispanic, 2% Black.
What district is Scroggins Elementary School in?
Scroggins Elementary School is part of HOUSTON ISD.
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