STAFFORD STEM MAGNET ACADEMY
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 88 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% 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 26 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
About STAFFORD STEM MAGNET ACADEMY
STAFFORD STEM MAGNET ACADEMY, a compact K-12 campus in STAFFORD, Texas, one of the schools within STAFFORD MSD, caters to 345 students, covering grades 3 through 11. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 485.
Across the 5 schools in STAFFORD MSD (3,492 students total), STAFFORD STEM MAGNET ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, STAFFORD STEM MAGNET ACADEMY records that 40% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 32% Black, 15% Hispanic, 5% White, 4% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at STAFFORD STEM MAGNET ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, STAFFORD STEM MAGNET ACADEMY 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 58.6%; STAFFORD STEM MAGNET ACADEMY posts 84.7%, +26.1 points above that line.
Around the school, Fort Bend County reports that median household earnings sit near $114,041, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), STAFFORD STEM MAGNET ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.
STAFFORD H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts STAFFORD STEM MAGNET ACADEMY at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 33.8%.
STAFFORD STEM MAGNET ACADEMY operates from a bedroom-community location.
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