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James & Mitzi Cross Elem
Harris County · Region 04: Houston · 1,137 students
James & Mitzi Cross Elem is rated C by TEA, scoring 78 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 81.3 average of the 1,776 schools serving a similar share of economically disadvantaged students, and below the statewide average of 81.3. TEA has published 1 year of scores for this school, so there is no trend to read yet.
Ranks 4,963rd of 7,646 Texas schools (tied with 264 others), and 950th of 1,303 in Region 04: Houston (tied with 52 others).
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1 year of ratings
| Year | Rating | Score | Similar | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | C | 78 | 81.3 | 81.3 |
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 James & Mitzi Cross Elem 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.
- James & Mitzi Cross Elem
- Similar student population (1,776)
- Region 04: Houston (1,303)
| Domain | Score | Grade | Points to next grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Achievement | 78 | C | 2 |
| School Progress | 79 | C | 1 |
| Closing the Gaps | 76 | C | 4 |
| Academic Growth | 70 | C | 10 |
| Relative Performance | 79 | C | 1 |
Closest to moving up: School Progress, 1 point 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 (79), so Student Achievement (78) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 79.
Student outcomes
STAAR performance
- Approaches grade level
- Meets grade level
- Masters grade level
- Tick: Similar student population (1,776)
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 (1,776 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
- 1,137
- Economically disadvantaged
- 53.9%−0.4 pts vs similar
- English learners
- 23.1%+9.1 pts vs similar
- Special education
- 19.3%+0.5 pts vs similar
- Attendance
- —
- Chronically absent
- —
Student demographics
- African American 44%
- Hispanic 27.1%
- White 9.2%
- American Indian 0.4%
- Asian 12%
- Two or More Races 7.2%
Teachers
- Average salary
- $71,361+$4,753 vs similar
- Teachers
- 84
- Students per staff member
- 13.5
Teaching experience
- Beginning 15.4%
- 1 to 5 years 27%
- 6 to 10 years 26.2%
- 11 to 20 years 21.4%
- 21 to 30 years 8.9%
- Over 30 years 1.2%
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.
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