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JUSTIN EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 38 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 24 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 63% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JUSTIN EL
Located at 425 BOSS RANGE RD, in JUSTIN, Texas, JUSTIN EL is a mid-tier elementary campus that serves 667 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by NORTHWEST ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so JUSTIN EL sits 29% larger than that benchmark.
Across the 37 schools in NORTHWEST ISD (32,098 students total), JUSTIN EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, JUSTIN EL records that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.
Looking at school resources, JUSTIN EL lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Denton County's rate of about 35%.
With demographic context factored in, JUSTIN EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 62.8%; this one comes in at 44.4%, -18.4 points off the demographic line.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Denton County put median household earnings sit near $111,498, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which JUSTIN EL is one.
ALAN AND ANDRA PERRIN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around JUSTIN EL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JUSTIN EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.0%.
JUSTIN EL operates from an outlying location.
Over the past 7-year window. JUSTIN EL's enrollment has edged up 17% since 2018, when it stood at 572 (now 667). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 73% to 67%.
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