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SPRING WOODS H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 15 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% 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 16 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SPRING WOODS H S
SPRING WOODS H S operates as a high-enrollment high school in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within SPRING BRANCH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 2,020 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 154% bigger than typical.
SPRING BRANCH ISD comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 33,793 students; SPRING WOODS H S is among them.
On demographics, SPRING WOODS H S reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%); the rest breaks down as 6% White, 4% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.
On the resource side, On paper, SPRING WOODS H S has 149 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at SPRING WOODS H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SPRING WOODS H S 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 35.9%; SPRING WOODS H S posts 52.3%, +16.3 points above that line.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that 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. SPRING WOODS H S is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
The closest other public school is THE TIGER TRAIL SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 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), SPRING WOODS H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 36.6%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Looking at the recent track record. SPRING WOODS H S's enrollment has declined 7% since 2018, when it stood at 2,165 (now 2,020). Hispanic enrollment moved from 82% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Harris County at a glance
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