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J L EVERHART MAGNET EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 22 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 22 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 J L EVERHART MAGNET EL
Set in LONGVIEW, Texas, J L EVERHART MAGNET EL is a small primary school, one of the schools within LONGVIEW ISD. It educates 424 students across grades pre-K through 5.
LONGVIEW ISD comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 8,138 students; J L EVERHART MAGNET EL is among them.
On demographics, J L EVERHART MAGNET EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 30% Black, 13% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.
Looking at school resources, J L EVERHART MAGNET EL records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 90% of students at J L EVERHART MAGNET EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Gregg County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, J L EVERHART MAGNET EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.8%, the actual is 39.1%, a residual of +4.3 points.
Around the school, census data for Gregg County shows median household earnings sit near $66,550, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. J L EVERHART MAGNET EL is one of 46 public schools in Gregg County (combined enrollment of about 20,498 students).
Nearest neighbor: DAN CHADWICK CAMPUS, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), J L EVERHART MAGNET EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 51.2%.
The school occupies a high-density site. As a public charter, J L EVERHART MAGNET EL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Over the past 7-year window. J L EVERHART MAGNET EL's enrollment has declined 25% since 2018, when it stood at 564 (now 424). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 45% to 53%.
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Gregg County at a glance
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