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CODER EL
Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 43 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 31 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 CODER EL
As a mid-tier elementary-level community in ALEDO, Texas, CODER EL serves 533 students from grades K through 5, run under ALEDO ISD.
CODER EL is one of 12 schools operated by ALEDO ISD, a district that hosts 8,430 students overall.
Looking at the student body, CODER EL records that White students make up the majority at 74%; the rest is composed of 19% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Parker County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Parker County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, CODER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.7%; this one delivers 72.0%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Parker County) records that median household income runs about $104,443, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Parker County's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,354 students), CODER EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: DON R DANIEL NINTH GRADE CAMPUS, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CODER EL at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 66.9%.
CODER EL operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. CODER EL's enrollment has rose 13% since 2018, when it stood at 471 (now 533). Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 23% to 19%. Class-load math has grew: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.
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