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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at JULIA BIRD JONES MULLER EL this year?
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Enrollment
768
Elementary
DISTRICT 606 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·UNITED ISD·NCES 484365008408
Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School
4430 MULLER MEMORIAL BLVD, LAREDO, TX 78045 · (956) 473-3900 · Webb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL768 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% of Texas public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
628 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 95 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 101 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 104 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 129 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 118 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (101) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (116).
Student demographics
4%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 3% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
62.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +38.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
50.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +34.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 38 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 34 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 35.0% | 27.0% | 18.0% | 20.0% |
| Mathematics | 22.0% | 28.0% | 27.0% | 23.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 62.0% | 50.0% |
| 2024-25 | 63.0% | 54.0% |
| 2023-24 | 59.0% | 49.0% |
| 2022-23 | 52.0% | 53.0% |
| 2021-22 | 48.0% | 47.0% |
| 2020-21 | 24.0% | 16.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School
Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School's state test result (50.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School this school | 768 | 81.8% | 50.3% |
| Hudson Elementary School BROWNSVILLE | 751 | 81.0% | 58.7% |
| Enrique Kiki Camarena Elementary School MISSION | 715 | 81.4% | 56.0% |
| Camino Real Elementary School DALE | 815 | 80.9% | 16.1% |
| Jane A Hambric School EL PASO | 740 | 83.8% | 46.2% |
| Paredes Elementary School BROWNSVILLE | 798 | 80.2% | 65.1% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Webb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.3% | #1,409 of 4,401 | #26 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,811 of 4,466 ▼ 484 | #34 of 52 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #1,298 of 4,466 ▼ 69 | #27 of 52 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.5pp | #2,379 of 3,998 | #37 of 52 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 768 | #562 of 4,938 | #8 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #2,521 of 4,622 | #24 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 3.8% | #4,378 of 4,628 | #9 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.8% | #1,809 of 4,789 | #40 of 52 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.1% | #1,509 of 2,838 | #31 of 43 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
768
-75 (-9%) vs 2020
+39% since 2000-01, when it was 552
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 16.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 768 | 51 | 15.1:1 | 82% (628) |
| 2023-24 | 809 | 50.7 | 15.9:1 | 79% (642) |
| 2022-23 | 828 | 49 | 16.9:1 | 78% (645) |
| 2020-21 | 843 | 52 | 16.2:1 | 78% (654) |
| 2017-18 | 915 | 51.2 | 17.9:1 | 77% (704) |
| 2015-16 | 887 | 49 | 18.1:1 | 79% (698) |
| 2010-11 | 808 | 46 | 17.6:1 | 79% (639) |
| 2000-01 | 552 | 29 | 19.0:1 | 80% (442) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (915 to 768); teachers unchanged (51.2 to 51).
About Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School
Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in LAREDO, Texas. It had 768 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 519 students for elementary schools in Texas.
UNITED ISD, which runs Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School, has 51 schools and 40,742 students.
Hispanic students are 98% of those enrolled at Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School. That is in line with Webb County, where about 95% of residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 4% means there is a 4% chance two randomly chosen students at Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School are from different groups.
Its staff includes 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 15.1 students per teacher. The ratio is within a point of the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 82%. That is in line with the 83% average for public schools in Webb County.
Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 76% of Texas public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Texas schools: 50.3% actual against 38.8% predicted.
In Webb County, home to about 269,294 people, median household income comes to about $63,058, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Webb County's 95 public schools enroll about 63,717 students and include Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School.
Of the public schools around it, Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School is closest to Juan Roberto Ramirez Middle School, about 1.2 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School at 7th of 9.
Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment decreased 9% over 4 years, reaching 768 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 16.2:1 in 2020-21 to 15.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Webb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
269,294
Census ACS
Median income
$63,058
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
95
63,717 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in UNITED ISD
- United High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- United South High SchoolHigh · 3,252 students
- Lyndon B JohnsonHigh · 3,240 students
- John B Alexander High SchoolHigh · 3,171 students
- Elias Herrera Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,146 students
- United Middle SchoolMiddle · 999 students
Other schools in LAREDO
- United High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- United South High SchoolHigh · 3,252 students
- Lyndon B JohnsonHigh · 3,240 students
- John B Alexander High SchoolHigh · 3,171 students
- Nixon High SchoolHigh · 2,124 students
- Martin High SchoolHigh · 1,975 students
Nearby schools
- Juan Roberto Ramirez Middle School1.2 mi · 521
- Barbara Fasken Elementary School2.1 mi · 704
- George Washington Middle School2.5 mi · 579
- Kazen Elementary School2.6 mi · 367
- Finley Elementary School2.9 mi · 471
- United High School4.0 mi · 3,463
Frequently asked questions
About Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary SchoolHow large is Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School?
Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School enrolls approximately 768 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School serve?
Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School is approximately 15.1:1 (51 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School?
At Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Two or more.
What district is Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School in?
Julia Bird Jones Muller Elementary School is part of UNITED ISD.
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