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JACK C BINION EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 JACK C BINION EL
Located at 7400 GLENVIEW DR, in RICHLAND HILLS, Texas, JACK C BINION EL is a moderately sized elementary campus that educates 693 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by BIRDVILLE ISD. That puts it 34% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
BIRDVILLE ISD runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 22,267 students. JACK C BINION EL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, JACK C BINION EL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%; the rest is composed of 16% White, 12% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, JACK C BINION EL records 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, JACK C BINION EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.3%; this one delivers 31.7%.
In the surrounding community, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which JACK C BINION EL is one.
RICHLAND MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JACK C BINION EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JACK C BINION EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.7%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Five-year trend. JACK C BINION EL's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 800 (now 693). White enrollment moved from 28% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.
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