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TAMARRON EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
About TAMARRON EL
TAMARRON EL is an elementary school of high-enrollment scale in KATY, Texas, overseen by LAMAR CISD, caters to 1,167 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so TAMARRON EL sits 125% above that benchmark.
LAMAR CISD comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 46,786 students; TAMARRON EL is among them.
On the student-mix side, TAMARRON EL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 21% Black, 15% White, 12% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Fort Bend County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TAMARRON EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.7%; this one delivers 52.4%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Fort Bend County) shows that median household income runs about $114,041, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), TAMARRON EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: KATHLEEN JOERGER LINDSEY EL, around 1.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TAMARRON EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TAMARRON EL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 73.6%.
TAMARRON EL operates from a residential location.
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