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BRIDGE CITY INT
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 25 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 2 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BRIDGE CITY INT
BRIDGE CITY INT is a moderately sized K-5 school in BRIDGE CITY, Texas, overseen by BRIDGE CITY ISD. The school works with 738 students in grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BRIDGE CITY INT sits 42% larger than that benchmark.
BRIDGE CITY INT is one of 4 schools operated by BRIDGE CITY ISD, a district that serves 3,157 students overall.
Demographically, BRIDGE CITY INT shows that White students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder looks like 22% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, BRIDGE CITY INT has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, BRIDGE CITY INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.7%, the actual is 46.9%, a residual of -10.8 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household income runs about $72,104, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Orange County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,100 students), BRIDGE CITY INT is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: BRIDGE CITY EL, around 0.2 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BRIDGE CITY INT comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.2%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BRIDGE CITY INT has changed only slightly, going from 725 students in 2018 to 738 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 78% to 70%. Class-load math has grew: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.
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