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DEARING EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 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 44 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 20 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 DEARING EL
As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in ROUND ROCK, Texas, DEARING EL educates 474 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under PFLUGERVILLE ISD.
PFLUGERVILLE ISD comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 25,477 students; DEARING EL is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, DEARING EL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 26% White, 24% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian.
Looking at school resources, DEARING EL records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at DEARING EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, DEARING EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.9%; this one delivers 44.9%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Travis County) records that median household earnings sit near $99,611, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), DEARING EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: FOREST CREEK EL, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DEARING EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.3%.
DEARING EL operates from a commuter-belt location.
Over the past 7-year window. DEARING EL's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 574 (now 474). Black enrollment moved from 20% to 24% across the same window.
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