COACH WALLY HARTLEY PK-8
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 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% 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%.
About COACH WALLY HARTLEY PK-8
COACH WALLY HARTLEY PK-8 is a well-populated elementary school in EL PASO, Texas, part of EL PASO ISD. The school works with 1,256 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 142% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
EL PASO ISD comprises 76 schools with combined enrollment of 48,118 students; COACH WALLY HARTLEY PK-8 is among them.
On the student-mix side, COACH WALLY HARTLEY PK-8 lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school lists 15% White, 10% Black, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, COACH WALLY HARTLEY PK-8 reports 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 76% of students at COACH WALLY HARTLEY PK-8 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, COACH WALLY HARTLEY PK-8 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.5%, the actual is 44.1%, a residual of +3.6 points.
In the broader community, El Paso County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. COACH WALLY HARTLEY PK-8 is one of 273 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students).
Nearest neighbor: HAWKINS EL, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), COACH WALLY HARTLEY PK-8 ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 44.0%.
COACH WALLY HARTLEY PK-8 operates from an inner-city location.
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