SPRAGUE MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 68% 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 15 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
About SPRAGUE MIDDLE
SPRAGUE MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of large scale in CYPRESS, Texas, part of CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, serveing 1,555 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 142% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
Across the 92 schools in CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD (117,927 students total), SPRAGUE MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, SPRAGUE MIDDLE logs that 35% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Asian, 20% Hispanic, 12% Black, 6% multiracial. Compared to Harris County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SPRAGUE MIDDLE has 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting SPRAGUE MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 14% of students at SPRAGUE MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SPRAGUE MIDDLE is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 67.6%; this one delivers 82.7%, a residual of +15.1 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. SPRAGUE MIDDLE is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
The closest other public school is WELLS EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SPRAGUE MIDDLE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 78.2%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
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