KEMP INT
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 KEMP INT
Set in KEMP, Texas, KEMP INT is an intimate elementary school, one of the schools within KEMP ISD. It teaches 307 students across grades 2 through 3. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so KEMP INT sits 41% below that benchmark.
KEMP ISD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,987 students; KEMP INT is among them.
On demographics, KEMP INT lists that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 42% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Kaufman County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, KEMP INT has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 72% of students at KEMP INT qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kaufman County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KEMP INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.6%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of -5.1 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kaufman County put the typical household earns roughly $89,485 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. KEMP INT is one of 65 public schools in Kaufman County (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students).
Nearest neighbor: KEMP INT WEST, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around KEMP INT. On composite proficiency, KEMP INT comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Over the past 7-year window. KEMP INT's enrollment has fell 18% since 2018, when it stood at 374 (now 307). White enrollment moved from 70% to 51% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, the feed for KEMP INT typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Kaufman County at a glance
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