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FLORENCE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About FLORENCE EL
Located at 3095 JOHNSON RD, in SOUTHLAKE, Texas, FLORENCE EL is a moderately sized primary school that teaches 475 students (grades pre-K through 4), operated by KELLER ISD.
Across the 42 schools in KELLER ISD (32,042 students total), FLORENCE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, FLORENCE EL records that 70% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.
On the resource side, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 9% of students at FLORENCE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, FLORENCE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.7%, the actual is 80.4%, a residual of +10.7 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which FLORENCE EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: CARROLL SENIOR H S, around 1.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FLORENCE EL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 77.5%.
FLORENCE EL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FLORENCE EL has remained close to its prior level, going from 484 students in 2018 to 475 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 82% to 70% over that span.
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