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ELGIN INT
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 5 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 38% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
About ELGIN INT
ELGIN INT is a middle school of middle-of-the-pack scale in ELGIN, Texas, part of ELGIN ISD, hosting 863 students in grades 5 through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so ELGIN INT sits 34% above that benchmark.
Within ELGIN ISD, which oversees 9 schools and 5,959 students, ELGIN INT is one campus in the system.
On demographics, ELGIN INT reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%; the rest is composed of 10% White, 8% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 45%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bastrop County (around 67%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, ELGIN INT sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.8%; actual is 17.5%, a gap of -20.3 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Bastrop County indicate median household income runs about $86,226, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Bastrop County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,931 students), of which ELGIN INT is one.
The closest other public school is ELGIN EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around ELGIN INT. On composite proficiency, ELGIN INT comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 29.6%.
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