Located in BAYTOWN, TX. Serving grades 06 through 08.
E F Green Junior School serves just over a thousand students in grades six through eight in Baytown, Texas, in the Goose Creek CISD. The school's student body reflects the demographic makeup of the broader community: a majority identify as Hispanic, with substantial Black, Asian, and white enrollment. About two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a population with meaningful economic constraints. The school draws from an industrial coastal city anchored by petrochemical manufacturing, where families often work in refining and chemical production and where residential neighborhoods sit interspersed with large industrial operations.
The school's testing performance shows a pattern worth understanding clearly. In English language arts, students perform better overall: roughly half of sixth and eighth graders meet or exceed proficiency on state assessment, while seventh grade runs slightly lower. In mathematics, the profile is more variable across grades. Sixth-grade math proficiency sits notably low; performance improves markedly in seventh and eighth grade, where about half of eighth graders reach proficiency. In science, tested only at eighth grade, about one-third meet proficiency. Social studies shows the softest performance, with roughly one-fifth of eighth graders proficient.
Across all tested subjects, the school's overall proficiency index places it above the median when compared with other schools in Harris County. This is a meaningful strength relative to peers in the county. That said, the spread of proficiency rates across subjects and grades suggests uneven mastery: students are doing relatively better in language arts and eighth-grade math than in science and social studies. A parent may want to ask the school about instructional support in sixth-grade mathematics and about the science program in particular, where proficiency trails other areas.
The school sits on East Wallisville Road in Baytown, a mid-sized city on the Gulf Coast east of Houston. Baytown is a place where industrial identity is primary. The area is car-dependent; pedestrian life and community gathering happen in a revitalized downtown arts district along West Texas Avenue and through an extensive parks-and-trails network rather than through walkable daily neighborhoods. A substantial trail system, including the Goose Creek Trail, connects parks, the municipal library, and civic facilities. Housing values in the zip code are moderate, and the market shows typical inventory and pricing trends for the region. The city is in a growth phase, with new residential subdivisions, a major shopping development at the former San Jacinto Mall site, and a new events venue under development.
Goose Creek CISD information about recent strategic priorities or significant shifts was not located, so the district context remains limited here. The school itself does not report data on special education enrollment, English learner population, teacher staffing, attendance, or discipline. These gaps may reflect the nature of the data collected and reported rather than an absence of programs, and a parent should ask the school directly about support services, language programs, and school environment.
This is a school where performance is solidly positioned in the county but not uniform across subjects, where the majority of students face economic constraints, and where the wider community is industrial and growing. Families considering E F Green would find a junior high serving a real cross-section of a working-class gulf-coast city, with particular areas of strength in literacy and mixed results in math and science that warrant direct conversation with the school about instructional supports and curriculum choices.
Percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards, by grade.
Officially reported figures, 2024-25.
All reported measures, by topic.