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Open-enrollment charter campus

Paul David Castro MS

A' Unlimited Potential · Houston · 138 students

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Current score
78/1002025-26
Change
−10 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
−2.7 ptsvs 80.7 average · 408 rated charter campuses serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
261 of 408tied with 13 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 88 in 2021-22. The current score is below the 80.7 average for 408 rated charter campuses serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

Recent domain gain

Academic Growth rose 12 points

64 to 76 2024-25 to 2025-26

  • 76 is 2.8 points above the 73.2 average among 390 charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.
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STAAR result

Reading above similar-context averages at Meets and Masters

Meets
50%vs 45.3% avg · +4.7 pts
Masters
22%vs 16.6% avg · +5.4 pts

Among 408 charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.

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Selected positive signals, not a summary of performance. The same rules choose them on every page: only the latest one-year gain, results meaningfully better than the currently selected comparison with broad reporting, and distinctive top-three placements. Demographics, staffing and spending cannot become academic “wins.” The overall rating and the full results below remain the complete picture for this school.

Read the full rating context and placement

Paul David Castro MS is rated C by TEA, scoring 78 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 80.7 average for 408 rated charter campuses serving a similar economic context. It is down 10 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 261st of 408 rated charter campuses serving a similar economic context (tied with 13 others).

Put the numbers in context

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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: English Learners

TEA track year 0 · Title I campus

Open the official TEA list and methodology

Schools identified for improvement

This school
Listed
Selected comparison
29.9%

average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 408 rated charter campuses reporting

Schools on the PEG list

This school
Not listed
Selected comparison
0.0%

average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 408 rated charter campuses 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

Follow the solid line to see how this school has changed. Turn comparison lines on or off to add context.

Compare against
908070 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas charter averagePaul David Castro MS 8879807678 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 88 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 charter average
2025-26C7880.7 408 reporting81.7 829 reporting
2024-25C7679.3 402 reporting81.3 797 reporting
2023-24B8077.3 393 reporting79.5 776 reporting
2022-23C7977.1 383 reporting79.6 749 reporting
2021-22B8883.9 361 reporting84.5 700 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 Achievement69 D−6.1 vs similar economic context · 408 reporting
  • School Progress79 C−2.9 vs similar economic context · 408 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps77 C−0.4 vs similar economic context · 405 reporting
  • Academic Growth76 C+2.8 vs similar economic context · 390 reporting
  • Relative Performance79 C−1.1 vs similar economic context · 406 reporting
  • Paul David Castro MS
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (408 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement69D1
School Progress79C1
Closing the Gaps77C3
Academic Growth76C4
Relative Performance79C1

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 (69) 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

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level61%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 408 reporting
  • Meets grade level35%−6 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 408 reporting
  • Masters grade level15%−0 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 408 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level72%+3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 408 reporting
  • Meets grade level50%+5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 408 reporting
  • Masters grade level22%+5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 408 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level59%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 407 reporting
  • Meets grade level30%−5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 407 reporting
  • Masters grade level13%+0 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 407 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level51%−21 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 391 reporting
  • Meets grade level21%−19 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 391 reporting
  • Masters grade level5%−11 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 391 reporting
Social Studies3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level47%−24 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 267 reporting
  • Meets grade level21%−19 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 267 reporting
  • Masters grade level9%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 267 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (408 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 charter campuses 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 charter campuses 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
138
Economically disadvantaged
85.5%−1.1 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
8.7%−33.1 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
21.0%+8.1 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
89.8%−2.6 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
38.7%+13.7 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Paul David Castro MS

African American: 58%Hispanic: 34.1%White: 3.6%Two or More Races: 4.3%
  • African American 58%
  • Hispanic 34.1%
  • White 3.6%
  • Two or More Races 4.3%

Selected comparison average For charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 408 reporting for every category shown · 408 in full cohort

African American: 18%Hispanic: 74.7%White: 4.2%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 1.5%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 1.3%
  • African American 18%
  • Hispanic 74.7%
  • White 4.2%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 1.5%
  • 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
138
Economically disadvantaged students
118
Emergent bilingual students
12
Special education students
29

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
62
Students in TEA mobility denominator
192
TEA-published mobility rate
32.3%

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 138 students in 2025–26, a decrease of 18 (11.5%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
138

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
−18

Decrease · −11.5%

Change since 2021–22
−7

Decrease · −4.8%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
138
Selected comparison
521.4

average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 408 rated charter campuses reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Paul David Castro MS
School yearStudents enrolledPaul David Castro MSChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 145 First available year 499.2
2022–23 156 Increase of 11 (7.6%) 515.9
2023–24 150 Decrease of 6 (3.8%) 520.9
2024–25 156 Increase of 6 (4.0%) 522.9
2025–26 138 Decrease of 18 (11.5%) 521.4

The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting charter campuses 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
17

8.8% of cumulative year-end enrollment

Disciplinary actions
18

9.38 per 100 students

Cumulative year-end enrollment
192

2024–25

Share of students · 2024–25

This school
8.8%
Selected comparison
10.6%

average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 266 rated charter campuses reporting

−1.8 pts vs similar economic context

Actions per 100 students · 2024–25

This school
9.38
Selected comparison
17.5

average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 279 rated charter campuses reporting

−8.1 vs similar economic context
TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Paul David Castro MS
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 168 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
2021–22 171 36 21.1% 56 32.75 10.7% 17.2
2022–23 183 29 15.8% 39 21.31 11.5% 19.6
2023–24 186 37 19.9% 58 31.18 11.2% 18.6
2024–25 192 17 8.8% 18 9.38 10.6% 17.5
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Paul David Castro MS in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline 17 8.8% 18 9.38 10.6% 17.5
In-school suspensions Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
Out-of-school suspensions 15 7.8% 15 7.81 8.5% 11.8
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 charter campuses 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.

$7k$15k$22k20182020202220242025
  • Paul David Castro MS
  • Parent district: A' Unlimited Potential
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$7,704
Selected comparison
$11,763

average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 404 rated charter campuses reporting

−$4,059 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $7,704 per student for this campus, $17,782 per student for its parent district, A' Unlimited Potential, $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
YearPaul David Castro MSParent district: A' Unlimited PotentialTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$8,093$8,936$13,054$8,448 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 250 rated charter campuses reporting
2019$13,526$11,047$13,108$8,672 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 299 rated charter campuses reporting
2020$9,588$15,521$14,058$9,283 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 321 rated charter campuses reporting
2021$8,128$13,199$14,797$9,510 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 352 rated charter campuses reporting
2022$11,850$18,987$15,708$11,172 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 370 rated charter campuses reporting
2023$12,763$19,046$16,792$11,285 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 381 rated charter campuses reporting
2024$15,408$21,301$18,125$11,600 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 390 rated charter campuses reporting
2025$7,704$17,782$18,972$11,763 average for charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 404 rated charter campuses 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
$75,945+$12,216 vs similar economic context
Teachers
7−23.4 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
20.2+2.2 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Paul David Castro MS

1 to 5 years: 60.3%6 to 10 years: 39.7%
  • 1 to 5 years 60.3%
  • 6 to 10 years 39.7%

Selected comparison average For charter campuses with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 408 reporting for every category shown · 408 in full cohort

Beginning: 13.4%1 to 5 years: 47.3%6 to 10 years: 20%11 to 20 years: 14.6%21 to 30 years: 4%Over 30 years: 0.7%
  • Beginning 13.4%
  • 1 to 5 years 47.3%
  • 6 to 10 years 20%
  • 11 to 20 years 14.6%
  • 21 to 30 years 4%
  • Over 30 years 0.7%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Paul David Castro MS in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classPaul David Castro MS · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Grade 625.523.6
Secondary English25.818.7
Secondary math25.819
Secondary science25.819.9
Secondary social studies25.820.1

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 5 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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