Summary:
Zip code 77075 in Houston, TX, is home to a single high school, Iltexas Houston Windmill Lakes Orem High School, which serves grades 9 through 12 with an enrollment of 837 students as part of the International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas) charter district.
This school presents a notable contrast between strong student retention and significant academic challenges. On the positive side, the school boasts an excellent graduation rate of 97.6% and an exceptionally low dropout rate of 0.1% for the 2023-2024 school year, indicating it is highly effective at keeping students on track to earn a diploma. However, academic performance on state assessments is a major concern. For the 2025-2026 school year, proficiency rates on STAAR End-of-Course exams are consistently and substantially below both the district and state averages. For example, only 16.13% of students were proficient in Algebra I, compared to 54.79% across the district, and just 40.85% were proficient in English I Reading, versus 67.47% district-wide. The school's state ranking has also declined over three years, falling from the 39th percentile to the 30th percentile.
This performance gap is particularly striking given that the school serves a highly economically disadvantaged population, with 87.1% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch. While the high graduation rate is a clear strength in student persistence, the low test scores suggest many graduates may not be achieving grade-level mastery in core subjects. The school is a low-performing outlier within its own mid-performing district, with proficiency rates 20 to 38 percentage points lower than the district average in every subject. For parents, this data highlights a school that excels at keeping students enrolled but faces serious, and worsening, challenges in preparing them for academic proficiency as measured by state standards.
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