Don Jeter El, Rosharon TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Don Jeter El

Don Jeter Elementary sits in an unincorporated area of Brazoria County south of Houston, in a low-density residential zone shaped by farm-to-market roads and expanding master-planned communities. It is a small elementary school serving grades PreK through 5, part of Alvin ISD, with enrollment distributed across a wide age range, including a substantial share of students on free and reduced-price lunch. The student body is majority Hispanic and Black, with smaller shares of Asian, white, and multiracial students.

Academic performance at the school reads as uneven across grade levels and subjects. In math, third-grade proficiency sits well below the midpoint for the county's districts, while fourth grade reaches roughly the midpoint and sixth grade is notably stronger. English language arts proficiency is weaker overall: third grade and fifth grade both fall short, while fourth grade is significantly below proficiency benchmarks. Science results in fifth grade show low proficiency. When results are pooled across tested subjects and grades, Don Jeter's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile among Brazoria County districts.

The pattern suggests struggling readers and math learners in the lower elementary grades, with better performance emerging by upper grades. A small group of students tested in Spanish-language STAAR for grade five in math and grades three through five in ELA; numbers were very small and results were notably low, which may reflect either limited English proficiency among those students or other barriers to accessing the Spanish-language assessment. A parent may want to look into how the school supports emerging bilingual students and whether gains in the upper grades reflect deepening skill or test familiarity.

Alvin ISD itself is in a growth phase. The district passed a bond in November 2024 to build three new campuses and renovate aging ones, with the first new elementary opening in 2027. The district has also lowered its property tax rate over several recent years, a factor affecting household costs for homebuyers in the area. Rosharon itself is a small, car-dependent place with no downtown commercial core; civic life centers on county services and gated master-planned communities along Highway 288, which bring pools, recreation centers, and trails but no continuous public street life. Most daily functions and employment lie in nearby towns or Houston proper.

This is a school serving a working and lower-income community in a growth corridor, with academic outcomes that will benefit from close attention to early literacy and numeracy. Families should view performance data directly with the school and ask about intervention structures for students below grade level in the primary grades, as well as the school's approach to bilingual learners.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 338%

School 38% · District 52% · ▼ 14 pts below district

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

Grade 450%

School 50% · District 49% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 9 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 50%

School 0% · District 17% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 41 pts below state median · ▼ 32 pts below county median

Grade 678%

School 78% · District 45% · ▲ 33 pts above district

▲ 44 pts above state median · ▲ 29 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 339%

School 39% · District 25% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 414%

School 14% · District 29% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 35 pts below state median · ▼ 44 pts below county median

Grade 530%

School 30% · District 66% · ▼ 36 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

Science

Grade 529%

School 29% · District 3% · ▲ 26 pts above district

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

This schoolALVIN ISD, 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 4Lower-income14%Higher-income74%60 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income43%Higher-income66%23 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income26%Higher-income50%24 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income74%Higher-income88%14 pp gap