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HYDE PARK 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 55 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 41 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 36 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HYDE PARK EL
Located at 1701 HYDE PARK, in DENISON, Texas, HYDE PARK EL is an average-sized K-5 school that works with 502 students (grades pre-K through 4), operated by DENISON ISD.
HYDE PARK EL is one of 10 schools operated by DENISON ISD, a district that teaches 4,977 students overall.
On demographics, HYDE PARK EL shows that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 17% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, HYDE PARK EL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, HYDE PARK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of +1.1 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Grayson County put the typical household earns roughly $72,182 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. HYDE PARK EL is one of 68 public schools in Grayson County (combined enrollment of about 25,915 students).
B MCDANIEL INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HYDE PARK EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Trend over the last 7 years. HYDE PARK EL's enrollment has edged up 13% since 2018, when it stood at 444 (now 502). White enrollment moved from 67% to 54% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.
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