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CANEY CREEK H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 CANEY CREEK H S
Located at 13470 F M 1485, in CONROE, Texas, CANEY CREEK H S is a heavily attended secondary school that enrolls 2,783 students (grades 9 through 12), part of CONROE ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 250% bigger than the state mean of about 796.
Across the 66 schools in CONROE ISD (72,914 students total), CANEY CREEK H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, CANEY CREEK H S shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 26% White, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 171 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CANEY CREEK H S higher than the state norm the norm. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Montgomery County (around 48%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CANEY CREEK H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.1%, the actual is 46.8%, a residual of +6.7 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,701 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), of which CANEY CREEK H S is one.
Nearest neighbor: VETERANS MEMORIAL INT, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CANEY CREEK H S at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 39.1%.
The campus sits in a countryside setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 36%: 2,042 students in 2018 compared to 2,783 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 46% to 26% over that span.
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