Summary:
In zip code 77037, there is one middle school, Stovall Middle, serving grades 6 through 8 with 1,039 students as part of the Aldine Independent School District (Isd).
Stovall Middle faces significant academic challenges, with state rankings in the bottom 11th percentile for the past three years. Proficiency rates in core subjects like Reading, Math, Science, and Social Studies consistently fall 10 to 25 percentage points below state averages. The most critical areas are 7th-grade Math, where only 9.42% of students were proficient, and 8th-grade Social Studies, with an alarmingly low 7.32% proficiency rate. However, the school shows a remarkable strength in its Algebra I End-of-Course exam, where 89.83% of students were proficient—far exceeding the state average of 54.03%. This suggests a highly effective advanced math program for a select group of students, while the majority struggle with grade-level math.
Despite these academic hurdles, Stovall Middle has a very low dropout rate of 0.6%, significantly better than the district average of 2.7%, indicating strong student retention. The school also has a reasonable student-teacher ratio of 14.5:1 and spends $10,464 per student. There is a slight positive trend in state rankings, moving from the 6th percentile in 2023-2024 to the 11th percentile in 2025-2026, suggesting improvement efforts may be having a small impact. The school serves a highly economically disadvantaged population, with 91.05% of students receiving free or reduced lunch.
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