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Iowa Colony, TX schools

Kids attend Meridiana El or Bel Nafegar Sanchez El through grade 5, then Iowa Colony J H and Iowa Colony H S.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

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Iowa Colony’s School Grade: B

The public schools Iowa Colony’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 59% of Texas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

BTest scoresB-Graduation
Texas school districts we grade (1,185)Better than 59%
Lower resultsHigher results
Texas towns with similar household incomes (173)Better than 36%
High confidence. Built on 13,414 tested students and a graduating class of 1,586; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Texas’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2019.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Texas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
  • Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Texas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path

Where Iowa Colony kids go to school

Grades PK–5
BMeridiana El or C-Bel Nafegar Sanchez El Depends on your address Alvin Independent School District
Grades 6–8
Iowa Colony J H 699 students · Iowa Colony Alvin Independent School District
Grades 9–12
Iowa Colony H S 1,781 students · Iowa Colony Alvin Independent School District

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

State test results

Math (grades PK–12, Alvin Independent)39%
State average 36.5%
Graduation · class of 2019

95% graduate on time

Graduation rate
95%
TX: 90.2%
Graduating class
1,586
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #212 of 584 TX towns →

Districts

The district serving Iowa Colony

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Iowa Colony

There’s no college in Iowa Colony, but 37 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Alvin Community College in Alvin, 11.4 miles away.

Alvin Community CollegeUniversity or college · Public · Alvin11.4 mi5,208 studentsNorth American UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Stafford17.3 mi573 studentsThe University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonUniversity or college · Public · Houston18.1 mi4,876 studentsHouston Christian UniversityUniversity or college · Private nonprofit · Houston18.3 mi3,012 studentsThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUniversity or college · Public · Houston18.5 mi268 students

27 more within 30 miles.

Straight-line distance from the center of Iowa Colony. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

Every school

All 4 schools in Iowa Colony

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School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.

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