Schools · Pasadena
Pasadena, TX schools
Kids attend one of 20 elementary schools through grade 4, then one of 6 middle schools and Pasadena Memorial H S or Sam Rayburn H S or Pasadena H S.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C
Pasadena’s School Grade: C
The public schools Pasadena’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 68% of Texas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
CTest scoresC-Graduation
Texas school districts we grade (1,185)Better than 32%
Lower resultsHigher results
Texas towns with similar household incomes (740)Better than 26%
High confidence. Built on 24,965 tested students and a graduating class of 3,890; 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 Pasadena kids go to school
Grades PK–4
20 elementary schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Pasadena Independent School DistrictGrades 7–8
6 middle schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Pasadena Independent School DistrictGrades 9–12
APasadena Memorial H S or B+Sam Rayburn H S or B-Pasadena H S
Depends on your address Pasadena Independent School DistrictBased 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, Pasadena Independent)29%
State average 36.5%
Graduation · class of 2019
89% graduate on time
Graduation rate
89%
TX: 90.2%
Graduating class
3,890
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #469 of 584 TX towns →
Districts
The district serving Pasadena
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 52 schools in Pasadena
Showing 1–30 of 52 schools
Brookwood ElElementary · Grades PK–5 · 792 students
A-PublicFairmont ElElementary · Grades K–5 · 776 students
APublicPomeroy ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 769 students
C+PublicMae Smythe ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 710 students
DPublicTeague ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 709 students
C-PublicDeepwater ElElementary · Grades 3–5 · 629 students
CPublicParkwood ElElementary · Grades PK–2 · 619 students
PublicBailey ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 602 students
CPublicL F Smith ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 572 students
C-PublicJensen ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 567 students
C+PublicFisher ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 566 students
C-PublicYoung ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 545 students
DPublicG W RobinsonElementary · Grades PK–5 · 536 students
A-PublicSouth Shaver ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 527 students
CPublicTurner ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 526 students
C+PublicRichey ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 505 students
DPublicRed Bluff ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 476 students
CPublicWilliams ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 455 students
C-PublicKruse ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 408 students
DPublicGolden Acres ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 390 students
DPublicGardens ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 382 students
DPublicMorales ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 379 students
DPublicParks ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 379 students
DPublicSparks ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 370 students
CPublicMcMasters ElElementary · Grades PK–4 · 339 students
DPublicEarly Childhood CenterElementary · Grades PK–1 · 250 students
PublicIgnite Community School - PasadenaElementary · Grades PK–8 · 194 students
DCharterRyss STEM Academy at First Friends PasadenaElementary · Grades PK–5 · 147 students
CharterStar Montessori SchoolElementary · Grades K · 275 students
PrivateAsbury Methodist Day SchoolElementary · Grades PK–K · 50 students
PrivateSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.