Lake Houston - Humble - Kingwood Edition | July 2025

Education

BY WESLEY GARDNER & HANNAH NORTON

HISD receives STAAR results

The breakdown

Humble ISD STAAR passage rates, spring 2025

HISD STAAR passage rate changes, 2024 vs. 2025

The data shows the dierence in the percentage points of students who approached grade level— considered passing—between the spring 2024 and spring 2025 administrations of the STAAR.

Humble ISD

Texas 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Humble ISD students exceeded or tied state averages in 15 of the 20 grade levels and subjects tested in the spring 2025 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, according to results released June 17 by the Texas Education Agency. HISD Superintendent Roger Brown touted the scores June 25 in an emailed statement. “At the high school level, Humble ISD students demonstrated strong performance by surpassing the state average on all „ve assessments administered,” Brown said. “The percentage of Humble ISD students reaching the higher meets or masters performance level, from third grade through high school, increased across 13 state tests.” The district’s largest increase in year-over- year performance was on the „fth-grade science exam, which saw the percentage of students approaching grade level climb by 8% in 2025. Additionally, the number of HISD students who approached grade level on the sixth- grade math exam rose by 6% compared to last year. While the district’s students mostly saw year-over-year gains on the exams, TEA data shows they scored lower than state averages in „ve of the 20 exams and remained even with state averages on two. Statewide, high school students showed declines or no change in passage rates for „ve out of six end-of-course exam passage rates.

70% 70%

Humble ISD

Texas -6-4-2 0 2 4 6

3rd grade

66%

4th grade

4th grade 5th grade 6th grade 7th grade 8th grade 3rd grade 3rd grade 4th grade 6th grade 5th grade 8th grade 7th grade

68%

70%

5th grade

73%

75%

6th grade

72%

40%

7th grade

52%

73%

8th grade

69%

78% 78%

3rd grade

82%

4th grade

81%

76%

5th grade

77%

79%

6th grade

75% 77%

7th grade

74%

81% 80%

8th grade

SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCYŽCOMMUNITY IMPACT

SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCYŽCOMMUNITY IMPACT

Zooming out

teachers and a lack of early intervention for struggling students. “The narrative around education right now is, how do we get back to pre-COVID levels? But the reality of the situation is, even at our peak, [math] achievement was at [50%],” Gabe Grantham, a policy adviser for the nonpartisan think tank Texas 2036, told Community Impact in 2024. “We have to dream a lot bigger than just prepandemic levels.”

said in a June 17 news release. “While this year also saw some improvements in math, clearly more work is needed.” About 43% of Texas students met grade-level standards in math, compared to 50% in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. According to previous Community Impact reporting, experts found that the pandemic highlighted existing issues with math education, including insu¡cient training for

Statewide, 54% of students met grade level or above in reading and language arts, according to Texas Education Agency data. Elementary school students saw the largest gains in reading, while middle school performance remained relatively stable, and high schoolers saw modest declines. “With [reading and language arts] scores now surpassing prepandemic levels, we are seeing meaningful signs of academic recovery and progress,” TEA Commissioner Mike Morath

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