Summary
Spring Woods High School is a large, comprehensive high school in Houston, TX, serving over 2,000 students in grades 9-12 within the Spring Branch Independent School District (Isd). The school serves a predominantly low-income community, with over 86% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and has historically performed in the lower-middle tier of Texas high schools, earning a 2-star rating over the past five years.
While the school spends more per student ($10,591) than its higher-performing district peers like Memorial High School ($9,194) and Stratford High School ($9,618), it faces significant academic challenges. For example, only 38.6% of students were proficient in English I Reading, compared to the district average of 57.98%. However, there is a bright spot: Spring Woods outperforms both the district and state in U.S. History, with 77.49% of students proficient. The school also shows a fascinating pattern of effectiveness for different student groups, being exceptionally effective for Multi-racial Students (88th percentile) and African American Students (81st percentile), while struggling more with its Asian Student population (12th percentile) and White Students (24th percentile).
Compared to its closest neighbor, Northbrook High School, which shares a similar demographic profile, Spring Woods consistently outperforms it in overall state ranking (40th vs. 26th percentile), graduation rate (85.9% vs. 76.6%), and every subject test score. The graduation rate has been slowly improving, but at 85.9% it remains below the district average of 88.4%, and the dropout rate of 3.9% is nearly double the district average. An interesting anomaly is that Spring Woods' Algebra I proficiency rate (50.3%) is actually higher than that of Memorial (47.83%) and Stratford (38.11%), likely because higher-performing schools have more students taking Algebra I in 8th grade, leaving a smaller, less-prepared group for the high school exam.
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