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BORMAN EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 15 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 BORMAN EL
BORMAN EL, a mid-tier primary school in DENTON, Texas, part of DENTON ISD, caters to 523 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
DENTON ISD comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 33,329 students; BORMAN EL is among them.
On demographics, BORMAN EL records that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 15% White, 14% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BORMAN EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 77% of students at BORMAN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, BORMAN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.3%, the actual is 27.1%, a residual of -13.2 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Denton County indicate median household income runs about $111,498, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), BORMAN EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: MCMATH MIDDLE, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BORMAN EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BORMAN EL at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 42.0%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 12%: 469 students in 2018 compared to 523 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 29% to 15% across the same window.
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Denton County at a glance
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