ENGE-WASHINGTON INT
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 37 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 ENGE-WASHINGTON INT
ENGE-WASHINGTON INT is a cozy junior high in GROESBECK, Texas, part of GROESBECK ISD. The school educates 320 students in grades 4 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 50% smaller than the state mean of about 643.
Across the 4 schools in GROESBECK ISD (1,495 students total), ENGE-WASHINGTON INT accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, ENGE-WASHINGTON INT lists that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ENGE-WASHINGTON INT has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at ENGE-WASHINGTON INT qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ENGE-WASHINGTON INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 38.7%, a residual of -6.1 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Limestone County) reports that median household income runs about $60,573, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ENGE-WASHINGTON INT is one of 11 public schools in Limestone County (combined enrollment of about 3,628 students).
Nearest neighbor: H O WHITEHURST EL, around 0.2 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ENGE-WASHINGTON INT comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Trend over the last 7 years. ENGE-WASHINGTON INT's enrollment has contracted 45% since 2018, when it stood at 586 (now 320). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.
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