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STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 3 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL
Set in RICHMOND, Texas, STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL is a reasonably sized elementary campus, operated by LAMAR CISD. It serves 468 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 49 schools in LAMAR CISD (46,786 students total), STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL records that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 30% Hispanic, 19% Black, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial. Compared to Fort Bend County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 40% of students at STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 56.8%, a residual of +0.3 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Fort Bend County put the typical household earns roughly $114,041 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL is one of 217 public schools in Fort Bend County (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students).
Nearest neighbor: ILTEXAS RICHMOND EL, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 58.1%.
STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at STEPHEN F AUSTIN EL has contracted 23%, going from 607 students in 2018 to 468 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 52% to 37% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.
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