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JUDY HAJEK EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 24 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 JUDY HAJEK EL
JUDY HAJEK EL is one of the reasonably sized elementary-level communitys in BURLESON, Texas, part of BURLESON ISD, with 628 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so JUDY HAJEK EL sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.
Within BURLESON ISD, which oversees 18 schools and 12,759 students, JUDY HAJEK EL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, JUDY HAJEK EL reports that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 16% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting JUDY HAJEK EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, JUDY HAJEK EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.4%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) shows that 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 JUDY HAJEK EL is one.
JACK TAYLOR EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JUDY HAJEK EL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.9%.
JUDY HAJEK EL operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. JUDY HAJEK EL's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 639 (now 628). The White share of enrollment decreased from 60% to 47% over that span.
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