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HURSHEL ANTWINE MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 28 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%.
About HURSHEL ANTWINE MIDDLE
HURSHEL ANTWINE MIDDLE is one of the mid-sized middle schools in EL PASO, Texas, operated by SOCORRO ISD, with 701 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.
SOCORRO ISD comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 46,668 students; HURSHEL ANTWINE MIDDLE is among them.
Demographically, HURSHEL ANTWINE MIDDLE shows that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 5% Black, 5% White.
On the resource side, On paper, HURSHEL ANTWINE MIDDLE has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, HURSHEL ANTWINE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 43.4%, a residual of +1.9 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for El Paso County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which HURSHEL ANTWINE MIDDLE is one.
Nearest neighbor: CHESTER E JORDAN, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HURSHEL ANTWINE MIDDLE at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
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