Arrow Academy - Liberation Academy, Meadows Place TX

Original Research by School Decision on Arrow Academy - Liberation Academy

Arrow Academy–Liberation Academy is a small charter school serving kindergarten through sixth grade in Meadows Place, within the Houston suburbs of Fort Bend County. The school enrolls roughly two hundred students, with a substantial majority from low-income households qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly Black, with a smaller Hispanic population and very limited representation of other groups.

On state assessments in the most recent school year, the school's results are mixed and uneven across grade levels and subjects. In English language arts, results center around the middle: third and fourth graders showed moderate proficiency rates, and fifth and sixth graders achieved similar rates, though all grades together point to about half of students meeting grade-level standards. In mathematics, performance is more volatile. Fourth graders performed substantially better than other grades, with a majority meeting proficiency standards. Third graders fell short, and fifth graders again showed low attainment. Sixth grade mathematics results were particularly weak, with only a small fraction of students meeting proficiency. Science testing, available only for fifth grade, showed similarly low proficiency. Across all tested subjects and grades, the school's overall proficiency index falls below the midpoint among other districts in Fort Bend County, placing it in the lower half regionally.

The school's profile carries characteristics parents should understand. As a charter school, it operates independently within its authorizing district, Arrow Academy. Meadows Place itself is a small, densely developed residential suburb of Houston with a largely white-collar workforce, modest recent growth, and a community organized around parks and civic recreation rather than a downtown commercial center. Housing values in the area have risen notably, and median household income is stable. For families considering this school, the gap between lower and higher performance across grades—particularly the sharp drop-off in sixth grade mathematics—is a pattern worth exploring directly with the school. A parent may want to look into what academic supports or interventions are in place, what instructional changes occur as students move to upper grades, and what transition planning exists as students leave for middle school in the Fort Bend district.

State testing data shows only the school's current performance snapshot, with no trend information available, so it is not possible to say whether results are improving, stable, or declining. Similarly, no information was available about special education services, English learner support, teacher staffing, student attendance, or discipline. The school's website and publicly available resources on its specific programming and approach were not included in the data provided. These are reasonable areas for a prospective family to research directly with the school.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 334%

School 34% · District 41% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 469%

School 69% · District 62% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 538%

School 38% · District 38%

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 68%

School 8% · District 23% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 45 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 357%

School 57% · District 49% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 463%

School 63% · District 43% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 554%

School 54% · District 46% · ▲ 8 pts above district

even with state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 654%

School 54% · District 57% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Science

Grade 517%

School 17% · District 19% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

This schoolARROW ACADEMY, 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-income48%Higher-income75%27 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income59%Higher-income69%10 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income53%Higher-income57%4 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income38%Higher-income80%42 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income26%Higher-income50%24 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income64%Higher-income77%13 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income35%Higher-income43%8 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income0%Higher-income20%20 pp gap