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Garcia Elem

Harris County · Region 04: Houston · 309 students

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Current score
78/1002025-26
Change
−12 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
+0.2 ptsvs 77.8 average · 1,299 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
706 of 1,299tied with 57 others
C78

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving down; under the rules in force back then it scored 89 in 2021-22. The current score is level with the 77.8 average for 1,299 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

Current strength

Academic Growth above the similar-context average

78 +4.3 pts vs 73.7

  • 78 is 4.3 points above the 73.7 average among 1,190 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
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Read the full rating context and placement

Garcia Elem is rated C by TEA, scoring 78 out of 100 for 2025-26 — level with the 77.8 average for 1,299 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is down 12 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 706th of 1,299 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 57 others).

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  1. Overview
  2. Official improvement and transfer notices
  3. 5 years of ratings
  4. Where the score comes from
  5. Student outcomes
  6. Who this school serves
  7. Student counts behind the percentages
  8. Enrollment over time
  9. Discipline and removal from class
  10. Spending per student
  11. Teachers and actual class size
  12. Where this comes from

Official improvement and transfer notices

Official state and federal designations can carry support, reporting requirements or a family transfer option that a single A–F rating does not explain.

2026 federal improvement status

Targeted Support and Improvement

Official support label: TSI

Identification reason: Special Education

TEA track year 0 · Title I campus

Open the official TEA list and methodology

Schools identified for improvement

This school
Listed
Selected comparison
32.6%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,299 rated schools reporting

Schools on the PEG list

This school
Not listed
Selected comparison
9.9%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,299 rated schools reporting

Selected comparison percentages are the share of reporting schools in that group found on each dated list. They are neutral prevalence context; changing the comparison never changes this school's official status.

These are dated TEA statuses, fetched 24 August 2026; they are not added to or subtracted from this site's rating.

5 years of ratings

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Compare against
90807060 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas averageGarcia Elem 9078676678 2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-26

2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years. Under the original scoring it was rated B with 89 that year.

Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.

View the yearly scores and comparisons
Rating history with comparisons
YearRatingScoreSelected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rateStateTexas average
2025-26C7877.8 1,299 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25D6677.4 1,285 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24D6773.7 1,273 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23C7872.7 1,270 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22A9081.9 1,259 reporting83.7 7,283 reporting

Where the score comes from

Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.

  • Student Achievement64 D−5.9 vs similar economic context · 1,207 reporting
  • School Progress78 C−0.9 vs similar economic context · 1,205 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps77 C+1.7 vs similar economic context · 1,198 reporting
  • Academic Growth78 C+4.3 vs similar economic context · 1,190 reporting
  • Relative Performance72 C−4.7 vs similar economic context · 1,204 reporting
  • Garcia Elem
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (1,299 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement64D6
School Progress78C2
Closing the Gaps77C3
Academic Growth78C2
Relative Performance72C8

Closest to moving up: School Progress, 2 points below B in that domain — the nearest of the measures that count toward the overall rating.

TEA does not add the domains up. The overall score is the better of Student Achievement and School Progress at 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. For this school that better measure is School Progress (78), so Student Achievement (64) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 78.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level60%−6 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,207 reporting
  • Meets grade level35%−5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,207 reporting
  • Masters grade level15%−1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,207 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level65%−3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,207 reporting
  • Meets grade level42%−2 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,207 reporting
  • Masters grade level21%+4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,207 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level65%−1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,205 reporting
  • Meets grade level39%−0 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,205 reporting
  • Masters grade level15%−0 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,205 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level38%−24 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,145 reporting
  • Meets grade level6%−27 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,145 reporting
  • Masters grade level0%−14 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,145 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (1,299 in cohort)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only schools for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.

Who this school serves

Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.

Students
309
Economically disadvantaged
99.3%+5.1 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
42.2%−2.3 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
14.7%−2.4 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
92.9%±0.0 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
22.4%−1.2 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Garcia Elem

African American: 26.1%Hispanic: 70.6%White: 2%Asian: 0.3%Pacific Islander: 0.3%Two or More Races: 0.7%
  • African American 26.1%
  • Hispanic 70.6%
  • White 2%
  • Asian 0.3%
  • Pacific Islander 0.3%
  • Two or More Races 0.7%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,299 reporting for every category shown · 1,299 in full cohort

African American: 15.3%Hispanic: 77.8%White: 4.2%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 1.2%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 1.3%
  • African American 15.3%
  • Hispanic 77.8%
  • White 4.2%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 1.2%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 1.3%

Student counts behind the percentages

Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.

Students in this TEA accountability summary
306
Economically disadvantaged students
304
Emergent bilingual students
129
Special education students
45

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
62
Students in TEA mobility denominator
267
TEA-published mobility rate
23.2%

The mobility count and rate use TEA’s separate 2024–25 campus denominator shown above, not current enrollment. This site does not recalculate a missing rate.

The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.

Enrollment over time

TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.

TEA reported 309 students in 2025–26, an increase of 20 (6.9%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
309

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
+20

Increase · +6.9%

Change since 2021–22
−77

Decrease · −19.9%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
309
Selected comparison
542.3

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,285 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Garcia Elem
School yearStudents enrolledGarcia ElemChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 386 First available year 593.4
2022–23 336 Decrease of 50 (13.0%) 587
2023–24 325 Decrease of 11 (3.3%) 577.1
2024–25 289 Decrease of 36 (11.1%) 570.8
2025–26 309 Increase of 20 (6.9%) 542.3

The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting schools in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this school's own counts do not.

Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.

These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.

Discipline and removal from class

TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.

Students in TEA’s all-discipline count
Not reported

Rate not available

Disciplinary actions
Not reported

Rate not available

Cumulative year-end enrollment
340

2024–25

TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Garcia Elem
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 470 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
2021–22 423 Not reported — Not reported — — —
2022–23 355 Suppressed — 10 2.82 — 32.3
2023–24 349 Not reported — Not reported — — —
2024–25 340 Not reported — Not reported — — —
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Garcia Elem in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline Not reported — Not reported — — —
In-school suspensions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Out-of-school suspensions Not reported — Not reported — — —
DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —

Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized schools can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this school's own counts and rates remain fixed.

Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.

Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.

Spending per student

The campus and its parent district stay fixed while the selected same-sector txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference remain visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.

$6k$13k$20k20182020202220242025
  • Garcia Elem
  • Parent district: Houston ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$11,691
Selected comparison
$13,619

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,284 rated schools reporting

−$1,928 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $11,691 per student for this campus, $17,026 per student for its parent district, Houston ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.

Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.

View yearly spending figures
Spending per student by year
YearGarcia ElemParent district: Houston ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$7,057$14,470$13,054$8,430 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,229 rated schools reporting
2019$6,263$13,643$13,108$8,383 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,244 rated schools reporting
2020$6,253$13,627$14,058$8,893 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,247 rated schools reporting
2021$7,765$13,515$14,797$9,796 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,247 rated schools reporting
2022$8,973$14,985$15,708$11,275 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,259 rated schools reporting
2023$9,665$16,350$16,792$11,875 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,270 rated schools reporting
2024$10,782$18,150$18,125$12,931 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,276 rated schools reporting
2025$11,691$17,026$18,972$13,619 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,284 rated schools reporting

The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.

Teachers and actual class size

Average salary
$70,618+$1,806 vs similar economic context
Teachers
19−19.2 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
16.1+1.1 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Garcia Elem

Beginning: 15.8%1 to 5 years: 26.3%6 to 10 years: 21.1%11 to 20 years: 21.1%21 to 30 years: 10.5%Over 30 years: 5.3%
  • Beginning 15.8%
  • 1 to 5 years 26.3%
  • 6 to 10 years 21.1%
  • 11 to 20 years 21.1%
  • 21 to 30 years 10.5%
  • Over 30 years 5.3%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,299 reporting for every category shown · 1,299 in full cohort

Beginning: 7.9%1 to 5 years: 27%6 to 10 years: 18.5%11 to 20 years: 26.9%21 to 30 years: 14.9%Over 30 years: 3.4%
  • Beginning 7.9%
  • 1 to 5 years 27%
  • 6 to 10 years 18.5%
  • 11 to 20 years 26.9%
  • 21 to 30 years 14.9%
  • Over 30 years 3.4%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Garcia Elem in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classGarcia Elem · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Kindergarten18.118.2
Grade 122.718.2
Grade 222.318.2
Grade 311.118.2
Grade 413.218.1
Grade 512.718.8

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 6 of 12 categories for this campus; the categories are not combined into a made-up campus-wide average. Each selected comparison average uses only schools reporting that same grade or subject.

Source: TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports, fetched 24 August 2026.

Where this comes from

The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.

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Single-file records are pre-built for district-level records only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here. Producing both formats for every entity would consume most of the 20,000-asset deployment limit before pages and shared data are counted. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 101912283.