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LEO ADAMS MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 37 points since 2020, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
About LEO ADAMS MIDDLE
LEO ADAMS MIDDLE is a 6-8 campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in HASLET, Texas, operated by NORTHWEST ISD, serveing 915 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 42% larger than typical.
LEO ADAMS MIDDLE is one of 37 schools operated by NORTHWEST ISD, a district that instructs 32,098 students overall.
In terms of who attends, LEO ADAMS MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 26% Hispanic, 17% Black, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, LEO ADAMS MIDDLE logs 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 24% of students at LEO ADAMS MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LEO ADAMS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.3%, the actual is 51.6%, a residual of -11.7 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Tarrant County indicate median household income runs about $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LEO ADAMS MIDDLE is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
Nearest neighbor: CARL E SCHLUTER EL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEO ADAMS MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, LEO ADAMS MIDDLE comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.
LEO ADAMS MIDDLE operates from an inner-city location.
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