The top reported proficiency rate is 40% in English language arts. The lowest is 0% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on T L Pink El
T. L. Pink Elementary sits on Collins Road in Richmond, the Fort Bend County seat, as part of Lamar Consolidated ISD. It serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, and the enrollment is mid-sized for a campus covering that grade band. The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet.
The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with Black students making up the next largest group, and smaller numbers of white and multiracial students. The vast majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this school among the higher-need campuses economically. English learner counts and special-education rates were not available in the data.
On the Texas STAAR assessment, which is the state's standard measure, T. L. Pink's results are low when placed against the other districts in Fort Bend County. The school's overall proficiency index sits in the bottom quartile relative to that county comparison set. Looking at the grade-level detail, reading results show a pattern worth understanding: third-graders tested on the English STAAR scored below the midpoint on proficiency, fourth-graders tested on the Spanish STAAR had too few students to yield a reportable result, and fifth-graders on the English STAAR passed at a noticeably higher rate, approaching or slightly above majority proficiency. In math the picture is weaker: third-grade English STAAR proficiency was low, and the small groups tested in Spanish at fourth and fifth grade showed no students reaching the proficient threshold, though those groups are small enough that the figures should be read cautiously. Science was tested only at fifth grade using the Spanish STAAR, also with a very small group, and no students reached proficiency there either. The aggregated picture across all subjects shows a meaningful gap between students who meet the basic "approaches" standard and those who reach the higher "meets" or "masters" levels. Parents may want to ask the school directly about how it is addressing these gaps, what additional instructional supports are available, and how the results break down for different student groups.
Trend data covers only a single year, so it is not possible to say whether performance is improving, holding steady, or declining. That context matters and is simply absent here.
The graduation rate does not apply to this school because it serves only elementary grades.
Richmond itself is a place of genuine contrasts. The historic downtown along Morton Street, with its early-20th-century storefronts, county courthouse, and local restaurants, sits alongside some of the fastest-growing master-planned communities in the Houston metropolitan area. Harvest Green and Candela are large-scale residential developments that have brought thousands of new households into the broader Richmond area. The community is publicly reported to be about a half-hour southwest of downtown Houston, with Fort Bend Transit offering both local demand-response service and commuter routes to the Texas Medical Center and Galleria corridors.
The housing market in the zip code shows values running modestly above the Texas statewide benchmark but below the national one, with both home prices and rents dipping slightly year over year. The rent-to-income ratio sits at a level that makes renting a reasonable option for many households, and the estimated monthly mortgage on a typical home is within range of the national median income, though individual circumstances vary considerably.
Lamar CISD is a hypergrowth district, and that shapes what families should expect. Voters have approved two major bond packages in recent years, publicly reported as the largest in the district's history, funding eight or more new campuses, a dedicated career and technical education center expected to open in fall 2026, and technology upgrades. Attendance boundaries have been actively redrawn and will continue to shift as new schools open in Fulshear and Rosenberg through 2027 and 2028. Families zoned to T. L. Pink should verify current and upcoming boundary assignments using the district's address-lookup tool, since rezoning activity is ongoing. The CTE center and expanded secondary pathways are a genuine strength on the horizon for families thinking about their child's trajectory beyond elementary school, though that is several years away for current T. L. Pink students.
Program-specific information for T. L. Pink itself, including gifted and talented services, bilingual or dual-language programming, and extracurricular offerings, was not available in the data provided.
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