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J LYNDAL HUGHES EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 19 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 LYNDAL HUGHES EL
J LYNDAL HUGHES EL operates as an average-sized primary school in ROANOKE, Texas, overseen by NORTHWEST ISD. Current enrollment sits at 672 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 29% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
Across the 37 schools in NORTHWEST ISD (32,098 students total), J LYNDAL HUGHES EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, J LYNDAL HUGHES EL shows that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 19% Black, 7% Asian, 7% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting J LYNDAL HUGHES EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, J LYNDAL HUGHES EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.5%, the actual is 53.1%, a residual of -2.4 points.
In the area at large, census data for Tarrant County shows median household earnings sit near $84,207, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which J LYNDAL HUGHES EL is one.
The closest other public school is JOHN M TIDWELL MIDDLE, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, J LYNDAL HUGHES EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.6%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Five-year trend. J LYNDAL HUGHES EL's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 632 (now 672). The White share of enrollment edged down from 58% to 42% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.
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