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ACADEMY AT NOLA DUNN
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 4 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 ACADEMY AT NOLA DUNN
ACADEMY AT NOLA DUNN is a primary school of mid-tier scale in BURLESON, Texas, overseen by BURLESON ISD, caters to 668 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 29% above typical.
BURLESON ISD comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 12,759 students; ACADEMY AT NOLA DUNN is among them.
On demographics, ACADEMY AT NOLA DUNN logs that White students make up the majority at 72%. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Johnson County (around 51%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ACADEMY AT NOLA DUNN performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.4%, the actual is 57.5%, a residual of -9.9 points.
Across the wider county, Johnson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,859 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Johnson County runs 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,004 students), of which ACADEMY AT NOLA DUNN is one.
CROSSROADS H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ACADEMY AT NOLA DUNN ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 59.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ACADEMY AT NOLA DUNN has held roughly steady, going from 669 students in 2018 to 668 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 81% to 72% over that span.
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Johnson County at a glance
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