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SST SPRING
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 39 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 28 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 SST SPRING
Located at 2105 LOUETTA RD, in SPRING, Texas, SST SPRING is a large elementary campus that hosts 839 students (grades pre-K through 7), operated by SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 62% bigger than typical.
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 5,602 students. SST SPRING is one of those campuses.
On demographics, SST SPRING shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% Black, 7% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school reports having 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SST SPRING sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.5%; this one delivers 42.9%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Harris County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which SST SPRING is one.
EVOLUTION ACADEMY HOUSTON is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SST SPRING ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.6%.
SST SPRING operates from an outer-ring location. SST SPRING is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for SST SPRING typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Harris County at a glance
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