Summary:
Up Excellence Academy is a single elementary school in Houston, TX, serving grades PK through 5 with a very small enrollment of just 36 students, and it operates as its own district, Up Excellence Academy.
This school stands out for its extremely low academic performance compared to state averages. In the 2025-2026 school year, overall proficiency in Reading was just 19.72% (state average: ~54%) and in Mathematics was only 10.14% (state average: ~45%). The school ranked 4,588 out of 4,627 schools in Texas, placing it in the 1st percentile. A critical weakness is in mathematics, where 5th grade proficiency was 0%, and 3rd and 4th grade proficiency was below 10%. This is not a one-year issue; 3rd grade math was also 0% in the prior year. The school also has a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students (66.67% receiving free/reduced lunch) and a remarkably low student-teacher ratio of 6:1, which typically allows for individualized attention but is not translating into academic success.
An interesting finding is the "Spanish Test" anomaly: 3rd graders scored 0% proficiency on the STAAR Spanish test in both Reading and Math in 2024-2025, suggesting that academic challenges are not solely language-based but reflect deeper deficits. The only glimmer of hope is in 6th grade scores (22.22% proficiency in both Reading and Math), which are the highest in the school for that year, though this may be due to a very small sample size. Overall, Up Excellence Academy faces systemic challenges that go beyond class size, likely tied to severe poverty and instructional gaps.
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