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GONZALES NORTH AVENUE
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GONZALES NORTH AVENUE
GONZALES NORTH AVENUE is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in GONZALES, Texas, part of GONZALES ISD, instructing 565 students in grades 3 through 5.
GONZALES ISD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,557 students. GONZALES NORTH AVENUE is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, GONZALES NORTH AVENUE records that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 21% White, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 51% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, GONZALES NORTH AVENUE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 42.7%, a residual of +0.5 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for Gonzales County shows median household earnings sit near $58,672, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. GONZALES NORTH AVENUE is one of 15 public schools in Gonzales County (combined enrollment of about 3,908 students).
GONZALES J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GONZALES NORTH AVENUE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.5%.
GONZALES NORTH AVENUE operates from a town-center location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GONZALES NORTH AVENUE has expanded 38%, going from 409 students in 2018 to 565 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.
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