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Hempstead MS

Waller County · Region 04: Houston · 318 students

B86

Hempstead MS is rated B by TEA, scoring 86 out of 100 for 2025-26 — above the 77.3 average of the 2,321 schools serving a similar share of economically disadvantaged students, and above the statewide average of 81.3. It is up 28 points since 2021-22 — both years scored under TEA's current rules, since TEA rewrote them in 2023; under the rules in force back then it scored 59.

Ranks 2,764th of 7,646 Texas schools (tied with 299 others), and 543rd of 1,303 in Region 04: Houston (tied with 57 others).

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  1. Overview
  2. 5 years of ratings
  3. How this school's change over time is ranked
  4. Where the score comes from
  5. Student outcomes
  6. Who this school serves
  7. Spending per student
  8. Teachers
  9. Where this school ranks best
  10. Where this comes from

5 years of ratings

Compare against
9080706050 Schools like this oneTexas averageHempstead MS 5870667786 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 Not Rated with 59 that year.

Rating history with comparisons
YearRatingScoreSimilarState
2025-26B8677.381.3
2024-25C7777.081.2
2023-24D6674.178.9
2022-23C7074.479.1
2021-22F5881.783.7

How this school's change over time is ranked

TEA publishes most measures for one year only, so a change ranking exists just where the same figure is published across years — the overall score, the five score domains, and per-student spending. This page does not yet state where Hempstead MS itself places on these lists, only that the lists exist; open one to find this school's own row.

Texas schools

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 Achievement75 C+3.9 vs similar · −4.3 vs region
  • School Progress85 B+6.6 vs similar · +1.5 vs region
  • Closing the Gaps88 B+13.5 vs similar · +6.5 vs region
  • Academic Growth81 B+8.8 vs similar · +2.6 vs region
  • Relative Performance85 B+8.4 vs similar · +3.2 vs region
  • Hempstead MS
  • Similar student population (2,321)
  • Region 04: Houston (1,303)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement75C5
School Progress85B5
Closing the Gaps88B2
Academic Growth81B9
Relative Performance85B5

Closest to moving up: Closing the Gaps, 2 points below A 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 (85), so Student Achievement (75) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 85.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level67%−0 vs Similar student population
  • Meets grade level44%+3 vs Similar student population
  • Masters grade level19%+3 vs Similar student population

Reading

  • Approaches grade level68%−2 vs Similar student population
  • Meets grade level49%+4 vs Similar student population
  • Masters grade level25%+7 vs Similar student population

Math

  • Approaches grade level65%−0 vs Similar student population
  • Meets grade level34%−4 vs Similar student population
  • Masters grade level12%−2 vs Similar student population

Science

  • Approaches grade level65%+1 vs Similar student population
  • Meets grade level49%+14 vs Similar student population
  • Masters grade level19%+5 vs Similar student population

Social Studies

  • Approaches grade level69%+5 vs Similar student population
  • Meets grade level52%+16 vs Similar student population
  • Masters grade level27%+12 vs Similar student population
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar student population (2,321)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The tick on each bar marks the average for Similar student population (2,321 schools) — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Who this school serves

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

Students
318
Economically disadvantaged
84.6%−0.6 pts vs similar
English learners
36.5%+2.3 pts vs similar
Special education
11.6%−6.8 pts vs similar
Attendance
94.1%+0.9 pts vs similar
Chronically absent
15.5%−6.3 pts vs similar

Student demographics

African American: 24.5%Hispanic: 67.3%White: 6.3%Asian: 1.3%Pacific Islander: 0.3%Two or More Races: 0.3%
  • African American 24.5%
  • Hispanic 67.3%
  • White 6.3%
  • Asian 1.3%
  • Pacific Islander 0.3%
  • Two or More Races 0.3%

Spending per student

Compared against TEA's own peer group, which controls for size and student population, and against the state.

$12k$17k$22k20182020202220242025
  • Hempstead MS
  • TEA peer group
  • Texas average

TEA's published file does not include peer-group spending for this entity, so no comparison is shown.

Not reported by TEA for this entity: peer.

Teachers

Average salary
$67,607+$69 vs similar
Teachers
26
Students per staff member
12

Teaching experience

Beginning: 3.8%1 to 5 years: 22%6 to 10 years: 22.7%11 to 20 years: 28%21 to 30 years: 23.5%
  • Beginning 3.8%
  • 1 to 5 years 22%
  • 6 to 10 years 22.7%
  • 11 to 20 years 28%
  • 21 to 30 years 23.5%

Where this school ranks best

Out of 97 rankings computed across every published metric and every comparison group, these are the placements that stand out. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

  • 1of 18

    Closing the Gaps

    Waller County · of the 18 that report this measure

  • 1of 18

    Relative Performance

    Waller County · of the 18 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 2of 20

    Overall score

    Waller County · of the 20 that report this measure

  • 2of 18

    School Progress

    Waller County · of the 18 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 2of 18

    Academic Growth

    Waller County · of the 18 that report this measure

  • 5of 18

    Science — Meets

    Waller County · of the 18 that report this measure

  • 6of 18

    Science — Masters

    Waller County · of the 18 that report this measure

  • 7of 18

    Reading — Masters

    Waller County · of the 18 that report this measure

  • 8of 18

    All Subjects — Meets

    Waller County · of the 18 that report this measure · tied with 2

  • 9of 18

    Reading — Meets

    Waller County · of the 18 that report this measure

  • 9of 18

    Science — Approaches

    Waller County · of the 18 that report this measure

  • 9of 17

    Chronically absent (lowest is best)

    Waller County · of the 17 that report this measure

These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this campus ranks poorly. Each statement below states its cohort and its denominator so it can be checked — a rank without an n is a boast, not a fact. Ties are shown because a shared ceiling is not a sole first place. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page comes from data the Texas Education Agency publishes at txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026 and archived with a checksum so each number stays traceable to the bytes TEA served.

Download the full dataset · this campus's district

Single-file records are pre-built for districts only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here — 9,086 entities in two formats is 18,172 assets, on top of everything else this site publishes, and that is past the 20,000-asset limit this site is published under. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 237902041.