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J L EVERHART MAGNET EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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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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