The top reported proficiency rate is 47% in English language arts. The lowest is 26% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on E C Mason El
E.C. Mason Elementary sits on School Road in Manvel, a northern Brazoria County community that is one of the Houston region's fastest-growing places. The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade as part of Alvin ISD, and its enrollment is on the larger side for an elementary school of its grade band. The surrounding area tells the story well: master-planned communities with names like Pomona, Valencia, and Del Bello Lakes have been rising alongside older acreage tracts, and publicly reported accounts describe a town actively working to build a downtown from scratch, anchor a town center with its first H-E-B, and plan parks and a public recreation center that do not yet exist. Life here is car-dependent, oriented around state highways rather than walkable streets, and most residents commute out to the Texas Medical Center, Pearland, or the Energy Corridor for work.
The student body reflects the area's diversity. Hispanic students make up close to half the enrollment, white students are the next largest group, and Black and Asian students are represented in meaningful numbers as well. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this well above the average for an elementary school serving a rapidly suburbanizing area where newer master-planned homes carry prices above both the state and national medians. English learner counts were not available in the data provided.
On the Texas STAAR assessment, results are mixed and grade-by-grade variation is wide enough to warrant a close look. Reading and language arts show a clear upward trajectory as students move through the grades: third graders tested on the Spanish-language STAAR passed at a low rate, fourth graders on the English assessment came in around half proficient, and fifth graders reached roughly two-thirds proficient. That progression suggests students who arrive tested primarily in Spanish are still developing English academic literacy through the middle elementary years, and parents of students in that pathway may want to ask the school how it supports that transition. Math results follow a different pattern: the fourth-grade English cohort came in well below half proficient, while a smaller group tested in sixth-grade math on the English assessment reached substantially higher rates. Third-grade Spanish math results were reported from a very small tested group and cannot be read as representative. Fifth-grade science, tested in English, landed in the low-to-mid twenties in terms of passing rates, which is notably low and worth asking the school about directly. Across all tested subjects combined, the school's overall proficiency index places it below the midpoint among districts in Brazoria County.
The multi-year trend data covers only the current school year, so there is no baseline to judge whether scores are improving, holding, or declining. That absence matters: a school in a fast-growing area with shifting enrollment composition can look very different from year to year, and a single year's snapshot is limited evidence. A parent would be reasonable to ask the school what trend data it tracks internally and how it reads its own trajectory.
Alvin ISD passed a bond in November 2024 to manage enrollment growth, funding two new elementary schools, a junior high, campus renovations, and security upgrades, with projects running through approximately the end of the decade. The first new elementary is slated for the Iowa Colony area. For families at E.C. Mason, that means the district's capacity picture is actively changing, and boundary adjustments are possible as new campuses come online. The district has also publicly reported a multi-year downward trend in its adopted property tax rate, driven by state compression and rising assessed values, which affects the cost calculation for buyers choosing a home in this attendance zone.
Housing near the school carries prices above the state median, and the local market has seen a modest year-over-year softening from its recent peak while still seeing demand for single-family homes in master-planned communities. Rents have edged slightly upward. Families renting would find that monthly rent represents a manageable share of median household income at the national level, though local incomes vary.
Program offerings, staffing details, chronic absenteeism data, and discipline information were not available in the data, so those dimensions of the school's environment cannot be characterized here.
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