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BORMAN EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-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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