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SUMMER CREEK H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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 SUMMER CREEK H S
SUMMER CREEK H S is a sizable high school in HOUSTON, Texas, part of HUMBLE ISD. The school instructs 3,972 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 399% larger than the state mean of about 796.
HUMBLE ISD comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 48,502 students; SUMMER CREEK H S is among them.
Looking at the student body, SUMMER CREEK H S logs that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 34% Hispanic, 13% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
Looking at school resources, SUMMER CREEK H S records 212 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.7:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Harris County's rate of about 70%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SUMMER CREEK H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.5%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household income runs about $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), SUMMER CREEK H S is one campus in the mix.
WOODCREEK MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUMMER CREEK H S. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUMMER CREEK H S ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.5%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Trend over the last 7 years. SUMMER CREEK H S's enrollment has ticked up 78% since 2018, when it stood at 2,230 (now 3,972). Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 40% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 today.
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