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BILLIE STEVENSON EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BILLIE STEVENSON EL
BILLIE STEVENSON EL, a sprawling K-5 school in FATE, Texas, run under ROCKWALL ISD, hosts 805 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BILLIE STEVENSON EL sits 55% bigger than that benchmark.
ROCKWALL ISD runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 19,235 students. BILLIE STEVENSON EL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, BILLIE STEVENSON EL lists that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 19% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Rockwall County's rate of about 29%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BILLIE STEVENSON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.0%, the actual is 58.4%, a residual of -7.6 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Rockwall County indicate median household income runs about $127,981, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Rockwall County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,104 students), of which BILLIE STEVENSON EL is one.
MISS MAY VERNON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BILLIE STEVENSON EL. On composite proficiency, BILLIE STEVENSON EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 25%: 645 students in 2018 compared to 805 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.
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