Students at Pearland ISD generally improved in their benchmark assessments for the first nine weeks of the school, according to data reviewed by Pearland ISD’s board of trustees at its Nov. 12 meeting.

The overview

According to district agenda documents, PISD reviewed benchmark assessment data in the following subjects:
  • Math, grades third through eighth
  • Reading and language arts, grades third through eighth
  • Fifth grade science
  • Eighth grade social studies
  • Algebra I
  • English I and II
  • Biology
For math and RLA in grades third through eighth, students generally improved in performance compared to last year’s first nine weeks benchmark data.
“When we sit together in our instructional leadership meetings, or our specialist trainings or our purposeful planning, we focus on the data, we don’t focus on how we feel about instruction,” PISD Superintendent Larry Berger said at the meeting.

What else?

For eighth grade social studies, students slightly declined in performance compared to last year’s nine weeks benchmark data, documents show.


In 2023, 64.5% of students “met grade level,” which is a grading standard used on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, that signifies the student passed the exam. In 2024, 63.95% of students “met grade level,” according to district data.

For fifth grade science and biology, only data from this year was presented.

Just over 64% of fifth grade science students “met grade level” this first nine weeks, and 63.7% of biology students “met grade level,” district data shows.