KATHERINE G JOHNSON STEM ACADEMY
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% 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%.
6-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2023-24About KATHERINE G JOHNSON STEM ACADEMY
Set in GREENVILLE, Texas, KATHERINE G JOHNSON STEM ACADEMY is a tiny elementary campus, run under GREENVILLE ISD. It enrolls 81 students across grades K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 84% below typical.
GREENVILLE ISD runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 5,664 students. KATHERINE G JOHNSON STEM ACADEMY is one of those campuses.
On demographics, KATHERINE G JOHNSON STEM ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is White at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 26% Hispanic, 26% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Hunt County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting KATHERINE G JOHNSON STEM ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hunt County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, KATHERINE G JOHNSON STEM ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.5%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hunt County) reports that median household earnings sit near $71,938, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. KATHERINE G JOHNSON STEM ACADEMY is one of 45 public schools in Hunt County (combined enrollment of about 20,771 students).
Nearest neighbor: CROCKETT EL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KATHERINE G JOHNSON STEM ACADEMY. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KATHERINE G JOHNSON STEM ACADEMY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 28.5%.
KATHERINE G JOHNSON STEM ACADEMY operates from a town-center location.
Looking at the recent track record. KATHERINE G JOHNSON STEM ACADEMY's enrollment has fell 66% since 2018, when it stood at 235 (now 81). Black enrollment moved from 10% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2024.
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