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VICTORY EARLY COLLEGE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 41 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 50 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 39% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 43 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About VICTORY EARLY COLLEGE H S
VICTORY EARLY COLLEGE H S is a senior high of low-enrollment scale in HOUSTON, Texas, run under ALDINE ISD, teacheing 442 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so VICTORY EARLY COLLEGE H S sits 44% smaller than that benchmark.
ALDINE ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 56,419 students. VICTORY EARLY COLLEGE H S is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, VICTORY EARLY COLLEGE H S logs that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 16% Black, 2% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, VICTORY EARLY COLLEGE H S logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Harris County's rate of about 70%.
With demographic context factored in, VICTORY EARLY COLLEGE H S ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 38.8%; VICTORY EARLY COLLEGE H S posts 81.5%, +42.7 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which VICTORY EARLY COLLEGE H S is one.
HARMONY SCHOOL OF ENDEAVOR-HOUSTON is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), VICTORY EARLY COLLEGE H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 22.4%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at VICTORY EARLY COLLEGE H S has rose 8%, going from 408 students in 2018 to 442 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 82% to 77%.
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