ITASCA 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 34 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores have held steady since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 ITASCA EL
ITASCA EL is one of the cozy elementary campuss in ITASCA, Texas, part of ITASCA ISD, with 276 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ITASCA EL sits 47% below that benchmark.
ITASCA ISD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 638 students. ITASCA EL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, ITASCA EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 30% White, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, ITASCA EL shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ITASCA EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Hill County's rate of about 64%.
With demographic context factored in, ITASCA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 32.3%, a residual of -9.2 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hill County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,591 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Hill County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,430 students), of which ITASCA EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: ITASCA MIDDLE, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ITASCA EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 350 students in 2018 compared to 276 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 46% to 30% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.
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