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ESCONDIDO EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 38 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
About ESCONDIDO EL
ESCONDIDO EL is one of the sprawling primary schools in CONVERSE, Texas, one of the schools within JUDSON ISD, with 833 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ESCONDIDO EL sits 61% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 36 schools in JUDSON ISD (23,539 students total), ESCONDIDO EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, ESCONDIDO EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 30% Black, 9% White, 5% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ESCONDIDO EL has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ESCONDIDO EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Bexar County's rate of about 63%.
After controlling for student poverty, ESCONDIDO EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 28.8%, a residual of -11.2 points.
In the broader community, Bexar County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), ESCONDIDO EL is one campus in the mix.
IDEA CONVERSE COLLEGE PREPARATORY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ESCONDIDO EL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 32.0%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
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