BROWN EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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%.
About BROWN EL
BROWN EL is a tight-knit primary school in LUBBOCK, Texas, overseen by LUBBOCK ISD. The school serves 409 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
LUBBOCK ISD comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 24,237 students; BROWN EL is among them.
On demographics, BROWN EL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 13% Black, 7% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Lubbock County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Lubbock County's rate of about 57%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BROWN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of +3.0 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Lubbock County put the typical household earns roughly $64,155 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Lubbock County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students), BROWN EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: BROWN EL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BROWN EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BROWN EL at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 43.7%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
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