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BLUEBONNET EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 33 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 23 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 29% 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 BLUEBONNET EL
BLUEBONNET EL operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in BASTROP, Texas, overseen by BASTROP ISD. Current enrollment sits at 765 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BLUEBONNET EL sits 47% larger than that benchmark.
Across the 16 schools in BASTROP ISD (13,370 students total), BLUEBONNET EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, BLUEBONNET EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). Other groups include 14% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Bastrop County as a whole is about 45% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BLUEBONNET EL has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BLUEBONNET EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BLUEBONNET EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 29.2%, a residual of -12.4 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Bastrop County indicate median household income runs about $86,226, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Bastrop County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,931 students), of which BLUEBONNET EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: COMPASS ROSE HARVEST, around 0.7 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BLUEBONNET EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 28.5%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BLUEBONNET EL has remained close to its prior level, going from 771 students in 2018 to 765 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 71% to 82% across the same window.
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