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CASTLE HILLS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 81 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 26 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 CASTLE HILLS EL
CASTLE HILLS EL, an average-sized elementary-level community in LEWISVILLE, Texas, operated by LEWISVILLE ISD, educates 604 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
Within LEWISVILLE ISD, which oversees 62 schools and 47,876 students, CASTLE HILLS EL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, CASTLE HILLS EL logs that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 36% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 57% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 3% of students at CASTLE HILLS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Denton County (around 35%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CASTLE HILLS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.8%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Denton County) records that the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which CASTLE HILLS EL is one.
The closest other public school is STEM ACADEMY AT POLSER EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CASTLE HILLS EL. On composite proficiency, CASTLE HILLS EL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 55.5%.
CASTLE HILLS EL operates from a residential location.
Five-year trend. CASTLE HILLS EL's enrollment has fell 6% since 2018, when it stood at 641 (now 604). White enrollment moved from 54% to 46% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.
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