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HALLSVILLE WEST 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 64 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 HALLSVILLE WEST EL
Set in LONGVIEW, Texas, HALLSVILLE WEST EL is a mid-sized elementary campus, part of HALLSVILLE ISD. It serves 703 students across grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 35% larger than the state mean of about 519.
Across the 7 schools in HALLSVILLE ISD (24,602 students total), HALLSVILLE WEST EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, HALLSVILLE WEST EL logs that 62% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 23% Hispanic, 9% Black, 5% multiracial. Compared to Harrison County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harrison County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, HALLSVILLE WEST EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.3%; this one delivers 62.2%.
Across the wider county, census data for Harrison County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,103 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. HALLSVILLE WEST EL is one of 29 public schools in Harrison County (combined enrollment of about 32,062 students).
Nearest neighbor: DAN CHADWICK CAMPUS, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HALLSVILLE WEST EL at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 55.0%.
HALLSVILLE WEST EL operates from a city-core location.
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Harrison County at a glance
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