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CLIFTON EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CLIFTON EL
Set in CLIFTON, Texas, CLIFTON EL is a mid-sized elementary-level community, one of the schools within CLIFTON ISD. It hosts 455 students across grades pre-K through 5.
CLIFTON EL is one of 3 schools operated by CLIFTON ISD, a district that works with 1,001 students overall.
On demographics, CLIFTON EL shows that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Bosque County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, CLIFTON EL shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CLIFTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of +0.0 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bosque County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,914 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bosque County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,462 students), of which CLIFTON EL is one.
CLIFTON H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CLIFTON EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 43.5%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CLIFTON EL has ticked down 9%, going from 500 students in 2018 to 455 in 2025.
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