STAAR, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Meets Grade Level or Above.Reading
43.0%
State avg 53.3%
District avg 50.0%
County avg 56.2%
-7.0pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
33.0%
State avg 43.3%
District avg 43.0%
County avg 47.2%
-10.0pp since 2023-24
Science
34.0%
State avg 39.5%
District avg 39.0%
County avg 48.2%
-7.0pp since 2023-24
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 45.1%
District avg 41.5%
County avg 44.6%
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level, about 33 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 34 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53, 43, and 40. Reading scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points and science scores are down about 7 points.
What is STAAR?
STAAR (the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) is the annual statewide test used by all Texas public schools. Students in grades 3 through 8 take it in reading and math, with science added in grades 5 and 8 and social studies in grade 8. High school students take End-of-Course (EOC) STAAR exams in Algebra I, English I, English II, Biology, and U.S. History.
What does "% Meets Grade Level or Above" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school whose scores reached or exceeded the "Meets Grade Level" threshold on the test. Texas reports four performance levels (Did Not Meet, Approaches, Meets, Masters). "Meets" and above means the student is performing at grade level or above. A higher number is better.
What does 43.0% mean for Reading at VAN VLECK EL?
It means about 43.0 percent of students tested at VAN VLECK EL performed at grade level or above on the STAAR Reading test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Texas that year was 53.3%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Texas, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Texas Education Agency, State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), via the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR). School-level All Students subgroup. Headline metric is the cumulative "Meets Grade Level or Above" rate.
How often is it updated?
STAAR is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.