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HOLLIDAY EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 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 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 HOLLIDAY EL
HOLLIDAY EL is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in HOLLIDAY, Texas, run under HOLLIDAY ISD, caters to 494 students in grades pre-K through 5.
HOLLIDAY EL is one of 3 schools operated by HOLLIDAY ISD, a district that instructs 1,120 students overall.
In terms of who attends, HOLLIDAY EL records that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting HOLLIDAY EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 23% 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 Archer County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, HOLLIDAY EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.8%; this one delivers 56.0%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Archer County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,159 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Archer County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,110 students), of which HOLLIDAY EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: HOLLIDAY H S, around 0.1 miles off. 2 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), HOLLIDAY EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.8%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. HOLLIDAY EL's enrollment has increased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 443 (now 494). White enrollment moved from 87% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.
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Archer County at a glance
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