The top reported proficiency rate is 52% in Math. The lowest is 31% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Jessup El
Jessup Elementary serves the pre-kindergarten through fourth-grade years in Houston's southeast side. The school sits in a neighborhood that is predominantly Hispanic and Black, with a student population that is economically disadvantaged. Nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, signaling a community with substantial material constraints. The school draws from a locality where median home values and rents reflect a working-class southeast Houston market.
The district that operates this school, Pasadena Independent School District, has recently undergone significant restructuring. In May 2026 the board voted to close McMasters Elementary and consolidate its students into nearby Parks Elementary, and to restructure Tegeler Community School into programs within two high schools. These decisions reflect ongoing budget pressure and enrollment decline that are affecting families' enrollment zones and school assignments across the district. The district also adopted a property tax rate for 2024-25 that includes use of disaster-relief tax authority stemming from a January 2023 tornado, a lasting consideration for homeowners.
Academic proficiency at Jessup is weak. On the most recent STAAR assessments in Spanish in 2024-25, the school's overall proficiency rate—the share of students scoring at or above the proficient level across all tested subjects—sits above the midpoint among Harris County's districts. However this aggregate masks sharp variation by subject. In third-grade math, approximately half of tested students reached proficiency, a modest outcome. In fourth-grade math, the test count was very small, making that result difficult to interpret. In third-grade reading and language arts, roughly one-quarter of students were proficient, a notably low result. Fourth-grade reading showed slightly higher performance at around one-third proficient, again a weak showing. Across all reported levels—"approaches," "meets," and "masters"—fewer than one-tenth of students reached the highest mastery level in either subject. The overall pattern suggests students are struggling to reach grade-level standards, particularly in reading.
A parent may want to look into whether the school has specific interventions in place for reading comprehension, how the school supports students learning English, and what progress the school has made on proficiency over time, since only the current year of data was available.
The school building itself is newly constructed. The district's 2022 bond package, approved by voters, funded the replacement of four aging elementary campuses, including Jessup, with new facilities. This means families are enrolling in a modern plant with new infrastructure. Property taxes in the district rose modestly at that time, an impact that continues for homeowners in the Pasadena ISD attendance zone.
The Houston context shapes this school's landscape. The city is growing rapidly, though growth has been shifting outward from Harris County toward surrounding suburbs. The neighborhood itself reflects Houston's mixed-use character, where residential, commercial, and light industrial uses coexist without traditional zoning separation. Walkability varies by location, and car dependence is typical for the southeast side.
Jessup Elementary is a small school by enrollment for its grade band, serving roughly the span of students in pre-K through fourth grade. It is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet option. State testing data came from assessments administered in Spanish, reflecting the school's language profile. English-learner and special-education counts were not available in the data, so a parent would benefit from asking the school directly about the composition of those populations and the support structures in place.
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