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INGRAM 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 64 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 36 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About INGRAM EL
As a reasonably sized K-5 school in INGRAM, Texas, INGRAM EL works with 642 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within INGRAM ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so INGRAM EL sits 24% above that benchmark.
INGRAM EL is one of 3 schools operated by INGRAM ISD, a district that serves 1,351 students overall.
On the student-mix side, INGRAM EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school records 46% White. By comparison, Kerr County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kerr County (around 57%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, INGRAM EL sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 43.8%; actual is 58.1%, +14.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the surrounding community, census data for Kerr County shows median household income runs about $69,395, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Kerr County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,808 students), of which INGRAM EL is one.
The closest other public school is INGRAM MIDDLE, roughly 1.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around INGRAM EL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), INGRAM EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.9%.
INGRAM EL operates from a town-based location.
Five-year trend. INGRAM EL's enrollment has grew 15% since 2018, when it stood at 556 (now 642). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.
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Kerr County at a glance
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