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IGO 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 31 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 46% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
About IGO EL
Set in JARRELL, Texas, IGO EL is an average-sized elementary-level community, operated by JARRELL ISD. It caters to 647 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so IGO EL sits 25% larger than that benchmark.
IGO EL is one of 7 schools operated by JARRELL ISD, a district that works with 4,157 students overall.
In terms of who attends, IGO EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 55%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest consists of 23% White, 12% Black, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, IGO EL has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Williamson County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, IGO EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 46.1%; this one comes in at 22.7%, -23.4 points off the demographic line.
In the area at large, census data for Williamson County shows median household earnings sit near $111,340, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. IGO EL is one of 208 public schools in Williamson County (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students).
JARRELL EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around IGO EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IGO EL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 36.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.
In the discussion threads here, the feed for IGO EL typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Williamson County at a glance
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