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CARROLL 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 21 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 9 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 CARROLL EL
CARROLL EL operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in CORSICANA, Texas, overseen by CORSICANA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 559 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.
CORSICANA ISD runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,998 students. CARROLL EL is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, CARROLL EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment; the rest reads as 26% Black, 14% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Navarro County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Navarro County's rate of about 71%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, CARROLL EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.0%; this one delivers 21.3%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Navarro County) shows that median household earnings sit near $63,111, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Navarro County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,681 students), of which CARROLL EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: TWO DIMENSIONS AT CORSICANA, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CARROLL EL. On composite proficiency, CARROLL EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.
Looking at the recent track record. CARROLL EL's enrollment has edged up 37% since 2018, when it stood at 408 (now 559). White enrollment moved from 5% to 14% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Navarro County at a glance
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- CORSICANA H SHigh · 1,837 students
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- CORSICANA MIDDLEMiddle · 857 students
- JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO ELElementary · 562 students
- BOWIE ELElementary · 494 students
- MILDRED H SHigh · 453 students
- TWO DIMENSIONS AT CORSICANA0.3 mi · 58
- SAM HOUSTON EL1.6 mi · 422
- BOWIE EL2.4 mi · 494
- FANNIN EL2.7 mi · 376
- COLLINS INT2.7 mi · 891
- JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO EL3.4 mi · 562