Sst Champions, Houston TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Sst Champions

SST Champions is a charter school serving pre-kindergarten through eleventh grade in Houston, operated by the School of Science and Technology network. The school sits in the northern part of the city and draws from a community with substantial economic need: a majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is predominantly Hispanic and Black, with smaller shares of white and Asian students. The enrollment spans early elementary through high school grades, creating a setting where younger and older students share a campus.

Academically, the school's state testing results show a pattern of uneven strength. In English language arts, students perform reasonably well in the upper elementary grades and improve by eighth grade, where more than seven in ten students meet proficiency standards. In math, performance is more volatile: third grade shows lower results, fifth grade is stronger, but sixth grade dips again, and by eighth grade proficiency sits around half. Science presents a significant soft spot—only about three in ten students in fifth grade and roughly a quarter in eighth grade meet proficiency standards, a notable gap compared to the school's ELA performance. Social studies proficiency is similarly low. These science and social studies results are a concrete area a parent may want to discuss with the school to understand whether there are curriculum changes underway or resource constraints in those subject areas.

The school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile among Harris County districts, an accomplishment that reflects strength in reading and language arts offsetting the weaker performance in science. A broader comparison suggests SST Champions is doing better than the median district in the county, though some schools outperform it.

SST is deeply committed to STEM as a teaching framework. The district runs Project Lead The Way curriculum from third grade onward, and in ninth grade students choose a specialized pathway within STEM. Eight SST campuses, including apparently this one, earned PLTW Distinguished Program recognition in 2024. For families drawn to a school with explicit, vertically aligned emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math thinking from the elementary years forward, that is a defining organizational choice. For families prioritizing breadth across humanities and other domains, this focus may feel narrow.

The charter network itself is expanding. New campuses have opened in The Woodlands and Schertz in recent years, and a college-prep high school broke ground near Richmond. All SST campuses earned an A or B rating in the 2025 Texas Education Agency accountability system, a positive signal of academic acceptability across the network. The Champions campus itself is one piece of a growing, stable organization with consistent state recognition.

The school draws students from a neighborhood with significant economic hardship, and serves a school population reflecting Houston's demographic diversity. It offers a path through grade eleven, though enrollment shrinks in the high school grades. State test data for high school grades was not available in the data provided. A parent considering this school would benefit from directly asking SST about the complete high school curriculum, graduation rates, college-going outcomes, and whether students can complete their full secondary education on this campus or must transfer.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 341%

School 41% · district not reported

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 565%

School 65% · District 51% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

Grade 641%

School 41% · District 46% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 760%

School 60% · District 57% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Grade 851%

School 51% · District 44% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 355%

School 55% · district not reported

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 571%

School 71% · district not reported

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 657%

School 57% · District 67% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 762%

School 62% · District 64% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 873%

School 73% · District 74% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Science

Grade 530%

School 30% · District 28% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Grade 826%

School 26% · District 25% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 836%

School 36% · District 46% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

This schoolSCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income57%Higher-income47%10 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income70%Higher-income85%15 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income64%Higher-income91%27 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income52%Higher-income63%11 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income60%Higher-income67%7 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income66%Higher-income92%26 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income41%Higher-income41%0 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income60%Higher-income82%22 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income32%Higher-income51%19 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income56%Higher-income71%15 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income46%Higher-income71%25 pp gap