JOHN AND POLLY TOWNLEY EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 JOHN AND POLLY TOWNLEY EL
JOHN AND POLLY TOWNLEY EL operates as a close-knit elementary campus in EVERMAN, Texas, part of EVERMAN ISD. Current enrollment sits at 424 students spanning grades 1 through 5.
EVERMAN ISD runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 5,018 students. JOHN AND POLLY TOWNLEY EL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, JOHN AND POLLY TOWNLEY EL lists that 56% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder is composed of 36% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
After controlling for student poverty, JOHN AND POLLY TOWNLEY EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.1%; this one delivers 23.6%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household earnings sit near $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), JOHN AND POLLY TOWNLEY EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: EVERMAN H S, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOHN AND POLLY TOWNLEY EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.9%.
JOHN AND POLLY TOWNLEY EL operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 11%: 382 students in 2018 compared to 424 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 52% to 56%.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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