ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL
Set in COMMERCE, Texas, ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL is a close-knit elementary school, run under COMMERCE ISD. It hosts 317 students across grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL sits 39% leaner than that benchmark.
COMMERCE ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,542 students; ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL is among them.
On demographics, ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL reports that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 27% Hispanic, 19% Black, 7% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 73% of students at ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Hunt County's rate of about 61%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.1%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hunt County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,938 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hunt County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,771 students), of which ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL is one.
COMMERCE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 31.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Over the past 7-year window. ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 348 (now 317). Hispanic enrollment moved from 19% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.
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