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FULTON EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 15 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 45% 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.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About FULTON EL
FULTON EL operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in FULTON, Texas, one of the schools within ROCKPORT-FULTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 619 students spanning grades 3 through 5.
Across the 4 schools in ROCKPORT-FULTON ISD (2,913 students total), FULTON EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, FULTON EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 43% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Aransas County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, FULTON EL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at FULTON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, FULTON EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.1%; FULTON EL posts 27.8%, -17.3 points below that line.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Aransas County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,466, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. FULTON EL is one of 4 public schools in Aransas County (combined enrollment of about 2,913 students).
ROCKPORT-FULTON MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around FULTON EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FULTON EL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 47.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.
Over the past 7-year window. FULTON EL's enrollment has grew 66% since 2018, when it stood at 374 (now 619). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 51% to 43%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.
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Aransas County at a glance
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