The top reported proficiency rate is 51% in English language arts. The lowest is 18% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Houston Academy
Houston Academy is a fifth-and-sixth-grade campus within Aldine ISD, sitting on Carver Road in north Houston. It serves only those two grade years, which shapes nearly everything about what the data can and cannot show: there is no graduation rate here and no AP or dual-credit pathway, because those belong to high school. The school is a regular public campus, not a charter, and not designated as a magnet.
The enrollment is mid-sized for a two-grade school, split fairly evenly between the two years. The student body is predominantly Black and Hispanic in roughly equal shares, with very few students of other backgrounds. The economic picture is clear and consistent: the vast majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this among the higher-need campuses by that measure. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what was provided.
On the Texas STAAR assessment, results from the most recent year show a real gap between subjects. Reading and language arts is the relative strength: roughly half of fifth graders and just over half of sixth graders reached the proficient-or-above threshold, and when looking at the broader "approaches grade level" band across ELA, nearly three-quarters of students cleared that bar. Math tells a different story. Fewer than a quarter of students in each grade reached proficiency in math, and the share reaching the higher "meets" standard is quite low. Science results for fifth grade, where the state tests that subject, were weaker still, with fewer than one in five students reaching proficiency. Overall, the school's proficiency index places it just below the midpoint among districts in Harris County, based on the county comparison set. A parent interested in math and science readiness going into middle school may want to ask the school directly about its intervention supports and how students are prepared for the transition to a traditional middle school.
Trend data across multiple years was not available; only the current year was reported, so there is no way from this data to say whether results are improving, holding, or declining.
The school sits in a part of Houston that reflects the city's broader character: no traditional zoning means the residential streets around Carver Road exist alongside commercial and light-use corridors without sharp boundaries. The surrounding zip code carries home values noticeably below the Texas state benchmark and well below the national one, with rents also on the lower end. Harris County's housing market overall has seen modest price softening over the past year, inventory has grown, and homes are sitting longer before selling than they were a year prior, which tends to favor buyers. For a family weighing affordability, north Houston near this school offers some of the more accessible entry points in the county.
Houston as a whole is adding residents faster than almost any other metro in the country, with growth pushing outward into suburban counties while the inner core also slowly densifies. Aldine ISD operates across a broad swath of north Houston and its inner suburbs. The district brief search did not surface specific recent changes or strategic priorities that a parent should weigh, so that context is absent here rather than guessed at.
What Houston Academy offers is a focused two-year bridge between elementary and the full middle school years. ELA performance suggests many students are building a workable foundation in reading. The math and science gaps are real and documented, and a family whose child needs strong math support should ask the school specifically what structures are in place, because the data alone does not answer that question.
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