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BRIDGE CITY INT
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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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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