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CHAPEL HILL 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 54 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 25 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 CHAPEL HILL EL
Set in MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas, CHAPEL HILL EL is a cozy primary school, part of CHAPEL HILL ISD. It instructs 440 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 8 schools in CHAPEL HILL ISD (4,000 students total), CHAPEL HILL EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, CHAPEL HILL EL logs that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 45% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 50% of students at CHAPEL HILL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Titus County's rate of about 73%.
After controlling for student poverty, CHAPEL HILL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.1%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of -7.1 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Titus County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $58,425 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Titus County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,972 students), CHAPEL HILL EL is one campus in the mix.
CHAPEL HILL H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHAPEL HILL EL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 54.2%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 447 students in 2018 compared to 440 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 35% to 45%.
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Titus County at a glance
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