SST CHAMPIONS

SST CHAMPIONS is a big unified-grade school in HOUSTON, Texas, part of SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. The school teaches 1,660 students in grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 242% larger than the state mean of about 485.

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 5,602 students. SST CHAMPIONS is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SST CHAMPIONS reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder looks like 24% Black, 6% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 99 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, SST CHAMPIONS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.8%, the actual is 50.1%, a residual of +9.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), SST CHAMPIONS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PREMIER H S-HOUSTON (CHAMPIONS), around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SST CHAMPIONS comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 32.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. SST CHAMPIONS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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