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STOVALL MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 STOVALL MIDDLE
STOVALL MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of expansive scale in HOUSTON, Texas, run under ALDINE ISD, teacheing 1,039 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so STOVALL MIDDLE sits 62% larger than that benchmark.
ALDINE ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 56,419 students. STOVALL MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, STOVALL MIDDLE logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 7% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school lists 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 91% of students at STOVALL MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, STOVALL MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.1%; this one delivers 25.1%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. STOVALL MIDDLE is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).
Nearest neighbor: LA PROMESA, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, STOVALL MIDDLE comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.
STOVALL MIDDLE operates from a metropolitan location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 7%: 971 students in 2018 compared to 1,039 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Harris County at a glance
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