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BRYAN EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 39 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 43 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 BRYAN EL
BRYAN EL is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in MISSION, Texas, operated by MISSION CISD, hosting 653 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BRYAN EL sits 26% larger than that benchmark.
Within MISSION CISD, which oversees 22 schools and 13,765 students, BRYAN EL is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, BRYAN EL logs that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 3% White.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BRYAN EL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 71% of students at BRYAN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hidalgo County (around 85%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
With demographic context factored in, BRYAN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.7%, the actual is 53.4%, a residual of +10.7 points.
In the surrounding community, Hidalgo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which BRYAN EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: MISSION EARLY LEARNING, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRYAN EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BRYAN EL at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 45.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Over the past 7-year window. BRYAN EL's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 741 (now 653). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.
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