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What's the most underrated thing about GLADYS POLK EL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
396
Elementary
DISTRICT 519 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRAZOSPORT ISD·NCES 481119005413
Gladys Polk Elementary School
600 AUDUBON WOODS DR, RICHWOOD, TX 77531 · (979) 730-7200 · Brazoria County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL396 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Texas public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
217 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 52 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 10% smaller than its 4th grade class (72).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
61.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +37.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
77.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +39.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 37 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 39 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 19.0% | 42.0% | 26.0% | 13.0% |
| Mathematics | 34.0% | 43.0% | 16.0% | 7.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 61.0% | 77.0% |
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 79.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 63.0% |
| 2022-23 | 22.0% | 44.0% |
| 2021-22 | 56.0% | 56.0% |
| 2020-21 | 24.0% | 38.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
71.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Gladys Polk Elementary School
Gladys Polk Elementary School's state test result (71.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gladys Polk Elementary School this school | 396 | 54.8% | 71.0% |
| Jennie Reid Elementary School LA PORTE | 403 | 53.6% | 55.2% |
| Bayshore Elementary School LA PORTE | 420 | 55.7% | 48.8% |
| Burton Hill Elementary School FORT WORTH | 365 | 57.8% | 41.4% |
| Whiteside Elementary School LUBBOCK | 434 | 50.9% | 64.3% |
| Foster Elementary School KINGWOOD | 343 | 51.9% | 43.5% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Gladys Polk Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Brazoria County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #287 of 4,401 | #6 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #201 of 4,466 ▼ 42 | #4 of 52 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #1,326 of 4,466 ▼ 750 | #24 of 52 ▼ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +36.0pp | #63 of 3,998 | #3 of 49 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 396 | #3,509 of 4,938 | #47 of 55 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #1,166 of 4,622 | #9 of 53 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.7% | #1,089 of 4,628 | #25 of 53 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.8% | #3,370 of 4,789 | #33 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.3% | #1,747 of 2,838 | #19 of 34 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
396
-66 (-14%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 467
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 14.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 396 | 29.3 | 13.5:1 | 55% (217) |
| 2023-24 | 403 | 30.7 | 13.1:1 | 63% (252) |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 31.4 | 13.1:1 | 66% (271) |
| 2020-21 | 462 | 33 | 14.0:1 | 69% (317) |
| 2017-18 | 457 | 34.7 | 13.2:1 | 54% (248) |
| 2015-16 | 443 | 32 | 13.8:1 | 55% (243) |
| 2010-11 | 459 | 33 | 13.9:1 | 59% (272) |
| 2000-01 | 532 | 35 | 15.2:1 | 47% (250) |
| 1990-91 | 467 | 35 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gladys Polk Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (457 to 396); teachers down 16% (34.7 to 29.3).
About Gladys Polk Elementary School
Gladys Polk Elementary School, located in RICHWOOD, Texas, is a small elementary school. It reported 396 students in pre-K through 4 in 2024-25. By comparison, elementary schools in Texas enroll about 519 students on average.
Gladys Polk Elementary School is run by BRAZOSPORT ISD, whose 18 schools enroll 11,169 students.
Hispanic students make up 47% of enrollment at Gladys Polk Elementary School, the largest share of any group. Beyond that, enrollment is 35% White, 10% Black, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. In Brazoria County overall, about 32% of residents are Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 64, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.5:1. The school has 29.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in Texas, the average ratio is 15.1:1. Federal data show 55% of students (217) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Gladys Polk Elementary School lands at A+, ahead of 99% of Texas public elementary schools.
Gladys Polk Elementary School is in the top 10% of Texas schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 50.3%. The school's actual rate is 71.0%, 20.7 points higher.
In Brazoria County, home to about 391,255 people, the median household earns about $97,993 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 33% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Gladys Polk Elementary School shares Brazoria County with 114 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Gladys Polk Elementary School is closest to Griffith Elementary School, about 1.4 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Gladys Polk Elementary School places 1st out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
Locale: Suburb: Small. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 396, down from 462 in 2020-21.
The discussion board for Gladys Polk Elementary School is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Brazoria County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
391,255
Census ACS
Median income
$97,993
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
115
75,767 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BRAZOSPORT ISD
- Brazoswood High SchoolHigh · 2,436 students
- Clute Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 1,002 students
- Brazosport High SchoolHigh · 841 students
- Bess Brannen Elementary SchoolElementary · 747 students
- Rasco Middle SchoolMiddle · 735 students
- Lake Jackson Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 698 students
Nearby schools
- Griffith Elementary School1.4 mi · 493
- Bess Brannen Elementary School2.2 mi · 747
- Brazos Success Academy2.3 mi · 134
- Lake Jackson Intermediate School2.3 mi · 698
- A P Beutel Elementary School2.4 mi · 572
- Brazoswood High School2.6 mi · 2,436
Frequently asked questions
About Gladys Polk Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Gladys Polk Elementary School?
Gladys Polk Elementary School enrolls approximately 396 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Gladys Polk Elementary School serve?
Gladys Polk Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Gladys Polk Elementary School?
Approximately 13.5:1 students per teacher at Gladys Polk Elementary School.
How diverse is Gladys Polk Elementary School?
Gladys Polk Elementary School reports a student body of 35% White, 47% Hispanic, 10% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Gladys Polk Elementary School?
Gladys Polk Elementary School is overseen by BRAZOSPORT ISD in Brazoria County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.