SPRING LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 41 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
About SPRING LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
SPRING LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, a modestly sized intermediate school in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by SPRING ISD, caters to 502 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 22% below typical.
SPRING ISD runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 33,678 students. SPRING LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, SPRING LEADERSHIP ACADEMY shows that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 30% Black, 4% White, 3% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SPRING LEADERSHIP ACADEMY has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SPRING LEADERSHIP ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 49.3%, a residual of +9.3 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Harris County put 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%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which SPRING LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one.
CLARK EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SPRING LEADERSHIP ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SPRING LEADERSHIP ACADEMY at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 28.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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