SST SUGAR LAND COLLEGE PREP H S
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 65 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 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 45% 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 17 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
About SST SUGAR LAND COLLEGE PREP H S
SST SUGAR LAND COLLEGE PREP H S is a secondary school of one-room-style scale in RICHMOND, Texas, operated by SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY, instructing 125 students in grades 8 through 10. That puts it 84% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
Across the 8 schools in SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY (6,084 students total), SST SUGAR LAND COLLEGE PREP H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, SST SUGAR LAND COLLEGE PREP H S logs that the largest single group is Black at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 23% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 13% White. By comparison, Fort Bend County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at SST SUGAR LAND COLLEGE PREP H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fort Bend County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SST SUGAR LAND COLLEGE PREP H S 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 45.2%; this one delivers 62.7%, a residual of +17.5 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Fort Bend County indicate median household income runs about $114,041, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. SST SUGAR LAND COLLEGE PREP H S is one of 217 public schools in Fort Bend County (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students).
The closest other public school is SST SUGARLAND, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SST SUGAR LAND COLLEGE PREP H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 48.0%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. As a public charter, SST SUGAR LAND COLLEGE PREP H S runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
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