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CARROLLTON EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 34 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 27 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CARROLLTON EL
CARROLLTON EL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in CARROLLTON, Texas, overseen by CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD. The school teaches 505 students in grades pre-K through 5.
CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 24,165 students. CARROLLTON EL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, CARROLLTON EL logs that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, CARROLLTON EL logs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at CARROLLTON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, CARROLLTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.1%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of +11.8 points.
Across the wider county, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which CARROLLTON EL is one.
The closest other public school is HUIE SPECIAL EDUC CTR, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CARROLLTON EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.5%.
CARROLLTON EL operates from a residential location.
Five-year trend. CARROLLTON EL's enrollment has fell 15% since 2018, when it stood at 591 (now 505). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 88% to 93%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.
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