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HARRISON LANE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 28 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 HARRISON LANE EL
As a moderately sized elementary school in HURST, Texas, HARRISON LANE EL educates 528 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD.
Within HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD, which oversees 31 schools and 23,262 students, HARRISON LANE EL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, HARRISON LANE EL reports that 38% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 24% White, 24% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Pacific Islander.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HARRISON LANE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.6%; this one delivers 49.7%.
Across the wider county, Tarrant County reports that median household earnings sit near $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HARRISON LANE EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
HURST J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HARRISON LANE EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HARRISON LANE EL has edged down 25%, going from 708 students in 2018 to 528 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 40% to 24% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.
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