SER-NINOS CHARTER HIGH
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 2 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 32% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
About SER-NINOS CHARTER HIGH
Located at 5610 GULFTON, in HOUSTON, Texas, SER-NINOS CHARTER HIGH is a tiny 9-12 campus that hosts 169 students (grades 9 through 11), overseen by SER-NINOS CHARTER SCHOOL. Enrollment runs roughly 79% smaller than the state mean of about 796.
Within SER-NINOS CHARTER SCHOOL, which oversees 4 schools and 1,193 students, SER-NINOS CHARTER HIGH is one campus in the system.
Demographically, SER-NINOS CHARTER HIGH lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SER-NINOS CHARTER HIGH has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.
With demographic context factored in, SER-NINOS CHARTER HIGH ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.0%; SER-NINOS CHARTER HIGH posts 52.0%, +20.0 points above that line.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which SER-NINOS CHARTER HIGH is one.
The closest other public school is SER-NINOS CHARTER MIDDLE, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SER-NINOS CHARTER HIGH comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area. As a public charter, SER-NINOS CHARTER HIGH runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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