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DR BRUCE WOOD EL
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STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 DR BRUCE WOOD EL
Set in TERRELL, Texas, DR BRUCE WOOD EL is a mid-tier elementary-level community, part of TERRELL ISD. It teaches 655 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so DR BRUCE WOOD EL sits 26% larger than that benchmark.
Within TERRELL ISD, which oversees 9 schools and 5,283 students, DR BRUCE WOOD EL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, DR BRUCE WOOD EL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder breaks down as 17% White, 16% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Kaufman County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kaufman County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, DR BRUCE WOOD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 29.6%, a residual of -9.7 points.
In the broader community, census data for Kaufman County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,485 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DR BRUCE WOOD EL is one of 65 public schools in Kaufman County (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students).
Nearest neighbor: TERRELL H S, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DR BRUCE WOOD EL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 620 students in 2018 compared to 655 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 44% to 60% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.
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