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BARTLETT SCHOOLS
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% 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 BARTLETT SCHOOLS
Set in BARTLETT, Texas, BARTLETT SCHOOLS is an intimate unified-grade school, overseen by BARTLETT ISD. It teaches 393 students across grades pre-K through 12.
Operationally, BARTLETT SCHOOLS answers to BARTLETT ISD, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.
Looking at the student body, BARTLETT SCHOOLS logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% White, 7% Black, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.
Looking at school resources, BARTLETT SCHOOLS shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting BARTLETT SCHOOLS tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at BARTLETT SCHOOLS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bell County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BARTLETT SCHOOLS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.6%, the actual is 22.4%, a residual of -8.2 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Bell County) records that median household earnings sit near $68,865, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bell County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students), of which BARTLETT SCHOOLS is one.
The closest other public school is GRANGER SCHOOL, roughly 5.4 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BARTLETT SCHOOLS ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 44.5%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 15%: 342 students in 2018 compared to 393 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 12% to 7%. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.
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Bell County at a glance
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