CAMPBELL EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 2 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 39% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CAMPBELL EL
CAMPBELL EL is an elementary campus of very small scale in CAMPBELL, Texas, operated by CAMPBELL ISD, enrolling 141 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 73% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
Across the 2 schools in CAMPBELL ISD (269 students total), CAMPBELL EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, CAMPBELL EL records that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 34% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Hunt County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CAMPBELL EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Hunt County's rate of about 61%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, CAMPBELL EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.2%; actual is 16.6%, a gap of -22.6 points.
In the area at large, census data for Hunt County shows median household earnings sit near $71,938, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hunt County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,771 students), of which CAMPBELL EL is one.
CAMPBELL H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CAMPBELL EL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 34.1%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Trend over the last 7 years. CAMPBELL EL's enrollment has decreased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 147 (now 141). White enrollment moved from 73% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.
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