LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 56 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 33 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER
As a minimally staffed elementary-level community in LEWISVILLE, Texas, LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER enrolls 207 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER sits 60% smaller than that benchmark.
Within TEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES, which oversees 44 schools and 17,100 students, LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER logs that 28% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Hispanic, 21% White, 18% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.6%; this one delivers 39.0%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Denton County indicate median household income runs about $111,498, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).
RESPONSIVEED - ONLINE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER. On composite proficiency, LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. As a public charter, LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Five-year trend. LEWISVILLE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LOWER's enrollment has edged up 229% since 2018, when it stood at 63 (now 207). The White share of enrollment decreased from 59% to 21% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 9.0:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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