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A P BEUTEL EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 26 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 33 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About A P BEUTEL EL
As a medium-sized elementary campus in LAKE JACKSON, Texas, A P BEUTEL EL hosts 572 students from grades pre-K through 4, operated by BRAZOSPORT ISD.
BRAZOSPORT ISD runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 11,169 students. A P BEUTEL EL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, A P BEUTEL EL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 42% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Brazoria County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, A P BEUTEL EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 54.7%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Brazoria County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,993 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Brazoria County runs 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), of which A P BEUTEL EL is one.
O M ROBERTS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around A P BEUTEL EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts A P BEUTEL EL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 52.4%.
A P BEUTEL EL operates from a commuter-belt location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 620 students in 2018 compared to 572 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 50% to 42% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.
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Brazoria County at a glance
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