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WOODARD EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 71 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 21 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 WOODARD EL
WOODARD EL is an elementary-level community of high-enrollment scale in CYPRESS, Texas, operated by CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, educateing 990 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so WOODARD EL sits 91% above that benchmark.
WOODARD EL is one of 92 schools operated by CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, a district that hosts 117,927 students overall.
On demographics, WOODARD EL records that 36% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 21% White, 20% Asian, 17% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably less Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, WOODARD EL has 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WOODARD EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.7%; this one delivers 60.7%.
Around the school, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which WOODARD EL is one.
CY-FAIR H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WOODARD EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.0%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 1,089 students in 2018 compared to 990 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 33% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.
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