The top reported proficiency rate is 35% in English language arts. The lowest is 12% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Holub Middle
Holub Middle is a seventh-and-eighth-grade public school in southwest Houston, part of Alief ISD, sitting along South Dairy Ashford in a part of the city where the absence of traditional zoning means commercial strips, apartments, and residential neighborhoods blend together rather than separating cleanly. It is a mid-sized school for its grade band.
The student body is majority Hispanic, with Black students making up a substantial secondary share and smaller Asian, American Indian, and white populations. The demographic picture is one of considerable diversity, which reflects the broader Alief ISD service area. An overwhelming share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing Holub among schools serving predominantly low-income families. English learner and special education rates were not available in the data provided.
State assessment results on the Texas STAAR exam give parents a clear, if sobering, picture. In reading and language arts, roughly a third of students in both seventh and eighth grade reached the meets-grade-level standard, which Texas uses as its primary proficiency marker. Math results were weaker: seventh graders passed at a notably low rate, and eighth graders improved somewhat but still fell well short of majority proficiency. Eighth-grade science and social studies followed a similar pattern, with social studies showing the lowest pass rate of any subject tested. At the master-grade-level threshold, the share of students across all subjects reaching that top tier was quite small. Positioned relative to districts in Harris County, Holub's overall proficiency index falls in the bottom quartile of the sixty-district comparison set. Parents should be aware of these results and may want to ask the school directly about support structures, intervention programs, and how students are tracked for academic recovery.
No AP offerings, dual-credit pathways, or elective program details were available in the data, which is expected given that Holub serves only middle grades, so those questions would naturally apply to the receiving high schools within Alief ISD rather than to Holub itself.
Chronic absenteeism and graduation rates do not apply here: graduation is a high school metric, and absenteeism data was not present in what was provided.
On housing, the zip code surrounding the school sits below both the state and national home-value benchmarks, making the area more accessible than much of greater Houston. Rents have been essentially flat or edging down slightly in the past year. Harris County as a whole carries a large and growing inventory of active listings, with homes sitting on the market somewhat longer than a year ago and list prices drifting downward from their recent peak, conditions that generally favor buyers. Houston's broader growth story, driven by a metro that added more residents than any other in the country in recent census estimates, means the region continues to attract families, though new construction is increasingly concentrated in outer suburban and exurban counties rather than in established Harris County neighborhoods like the one Holub serves.
The Alief ISD district brief search did not return confirmed recent changes, so district-level strategic priorities or program shifts were left out rather than guessed at.
For a family weighing a middle school choice, Holub is a large, diverse campus in an affordable part of Houston with a genuine economic need concentration in its student body. The academic performance data as reported is below the county midpoint across subjects, and that warrants a direct conversation with the school about what academic support looks like for incoming students.
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