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GODLEY MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
About GODLEY MIDDLE
GODLEY MIDDLE operates as a reasonably sized middle school in GODLEY, Texas, run under GODLEY ISD. Current enrollment sits at 729 students spanning grades 6 through 8.
Within GODLEY ISD, which oversees 5 schools and 3,195 students, GODLEY MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, GODLEY MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 33% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting GODLEY MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 47% of students at GODLEY MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GODLEY MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.4%, the actual is 49.1%, a residual of -4.3 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Johnson County shows median household income runs about $84,859, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Johnson County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,004 students), GODLEY MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
GODLEY H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around GODLEY MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, GODLEY MIDDLE comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
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