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CITY VIEW 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 33 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 19 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 CITY VIEW EL
CITY VIEW EL is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in WICHITA FALLS, Texas, one of the schools within CITY VIEW ISD, instructing 504 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Within CITY VIEW ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 1,152 students, CITY VIEW EL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, CITY VIEW EL logs that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 36% Hispanic, 13% Black, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 71% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wichita County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CITY VIEW EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.9%; this one delivers 33.7%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Wichita County put median household earnings sit near $63,524, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. CITY VIEW EL is one of 53 public schools in Wichita County (combined enrollment of about 23,047 students).
Nearest neighbor: CITY VIEW JUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CITY VIEW EL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.2%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Looking at the recent track record. CITY VIEW EL's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 605 (now 504). The White share of enrollment fell from 50% to 38% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.
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