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CALDWELL INT
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 50 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 40 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 29 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 CALDWELL INT
CALDWELL INT is one of the intimate intermediate schools in CALDWELL, Texas, run under CALDWELL ISD, with 439 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so CALDWELL INT sits 32% below that benchmark.
CALDWELL INT is one of 4 schools operated by CALDWELL ISD, a district that teaches 1,952 students overall.
On demographics, CALDWELL INT shows that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 43% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 68% of students at CALDWELL INT qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, CALDWELL INT tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.5%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Burleson County shows median household earnings sit near $70,000, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CALDWELL INT is one of 10 public schools in Burleson County (combined enrollment of about 3,128 students).
Nearest neighbor: CALDWELL J H, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around CALDWELL INT. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CALDWELL INT at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.9%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 417 students in 2018 compared to 439 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 36% to 43%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.
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