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FREEDOM EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 28 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About FREEDOM EL
FREEDOM EL is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in KELLER, Texas, run under KELLER ISD, works with 639 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so FREEDOM EL sits 23% above that benchmark.
KELLER ISD runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 32,042 students. FREEDOM EL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, FREEDOM EL lists that 39% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 31% White, 13% Asian, 12% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, FREEDOM EL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 41% of students are eligible 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 noticeably below typical.
With demographic context factored in, FREEDOM EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.1%, the actual is 61.6%, a residual of +5.5 points.
Around the school, census data for Tarrant County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which FREEDOM EL is one.
CENTRAL H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FREEDOM EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 64.5%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FREEDOM EL has ticked up 13%, going from 566 students in 2018 to 639 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 51% to 31%.
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