STAAR, SY 2023-24
All grades, all students. % Meets Grade Level or Above.Reading
83.0%
State avg 51.8%
District avg 86.1%
County avg 51.9%
+46.0pp since 2020-21
Mathematics
76.0%
State avg 42.0%
District avg 55.9%
County avg 41.9%
+36.0pp since 2020-21
Science
88.0%
State avg 35.6%
District avg 66.3%
County avg 31.5%
+52.0pp since 2020-21
Social Studies
54.0%
State avg 45.8%
District avg 73.4%
County avg 42.1%
+32.0pp since 2020-21
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level, about 76 of 100 do math at grade level, about 88 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 54 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52, 42, 36, and 46. Reading scores are up about 46 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 36 points, science scores are up about 52 points, and social studies scores are up about 32 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
76.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 49% 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 27 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual.
How this is calculated →What is STAAR?
STAAR (the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) is the annual statewide test used by all Texas public schools. Students in grades 3 through 8 take it in reading and math, with science added in grades 5 and 8 and social studies in grade 8. High school students take End-of-Course (EOC) STAAR exams in Algebra I, English I, English II, Biology, and U.S. History.
What does "% Meets Grade Level or Above" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school whose scores reached or exceeded the "Meets Grade Level" threshold on the test. Texas reports four performance levels (Did Not Meet, Approaches, Meets, Masters). "Meets" and above means the student is performing at grade level or above. A higher number is better.
What does 83.0% mean for Reading at SOUTH TEXAS ISD RISING SCHOLARS ACADEMY?
It means about 83.0 percent of students tested at SOUTH TEXAS ISD RISING SCHOLARS ACADEMY performed at grade level or above on the STAAR Reading test in 2023-24. The statewide average for Texas that year was 51.8%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Texas, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Texas Education Agency, State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), via the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR). School-level All Students subgroup. Headline metric is the cumulative "Meets Grade Level or Above" rate.
How often is it updated?
STAAR is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.
