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SPILLANE MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 30 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 SPILLANE MIDDLE
SPILLANE MIDDLE is a substantial junior high in CYPRESS, Texas, one of the schools within CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD. The school educates 1,436 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 123% bigger than the state mean of about 643.
CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD comprises 92 schools with combined enrollment of 117,927 students; SPILLANE MIDDLE is among them.
On demographics, SPILLANE MIDDLE records that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 13% Black, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Harris County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting SPILLANE MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SPILLANE MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.8%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), SPILLANE MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: ROBISON EL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SPILLANE MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SPILLANE MIDDLE at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 65.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 1,592 students in 2018 compared to 1,436 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 50% to 35% across the same window.
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Harris County at a glance
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