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GLENN C HARDIN INT
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 5 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 GLENN C HARDIN INT
GLENN C HARDIN INT, a low-enrollment junior high in DUNCANVILLE, Texas, operated by DUNCANVILLE ISD, works with 508 students, covering grades 5 through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 21% smaller than the state mean of about 643.
Across the 17 schools in DUNCANVILLE ISD (11,562 students total), GLENN C HARDIN INT accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, GLENN C HARDIN INT shows that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, GLENN C HARDIN INT lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at GLENN C HARDIN INT qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, GLENN C HARDIN INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.2%, the actual is 28.8%, a residual of -8.4 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Dallas County put the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. GLENN C HARDIN INT is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
MARY E SMITHEY PACE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 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), GLENN C HARDIN INT ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.2%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GLENN C HARDIN INT has shrank 25%, going from 674 students in 2018 to 508 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 65% to 74%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.
On the community side, members of the GLENN C HARDIN INT community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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