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J W MONDAY 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 56 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 17 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% 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%.
About J W MONDAY EL
As a reasonably sized primary school in KAUFMAN, Texas, J W MONDAY EL teaches 513 students from grades 1 through 5, operated by KAUFMAN ISD.
KAUFMAN ISD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,356 students; J W MONDAY EL is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, J W MONDAY EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 32% White, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, J W MONDAY EL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kaufman County (around 59%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, J W MONDAY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of +10.1 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kaufman County put median household income runs about $89,485, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Kaufman County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), of which J W MONDAY EL is one.
J R PHILLIPS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around J W MONDAY EL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), J W MONDAY EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 47.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.
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Kaufman County at a glance
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