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ARBOR CREEK EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 9 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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%.
About ARBOR CREEK EL
ARBOR CREEK EL is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in EULESS, Texas, part of HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD, serveing 710 students in grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 37% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
Within HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD, which oversees 31 schools and 23,262 students, ARBOR CREEK EL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, ARBOR CREEK EL logs that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 10% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, ARBOR CREEK EL shows 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, ARBOR CREEK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 38.6%, a residual of -5.4 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) shows that median household earnings sit near $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. ARBOR CREEK EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
EULESS J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARBOR CREEK EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ARBOR CREEK EL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.6%.
ARBOR CREEK EL operates from a suburban location.
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