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LIBERTY EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 6 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 LIBERTY EL
LIBERTY EL, an average-sized elementary school in WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas, one of the schools within WHITE SETTLEMENT ISD, enrolls 654 students, covering grades 1 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% bigger than the state mean of about 519.
WHITE SETTLEMENT ISD comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 7,899 students; LIBERTY EL is among them.
On demographics, LIBERTY EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 19% White, 9% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, LIBERTY EL reports 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, LIBERTY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.8%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of -6.7 points.
Around the school, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), LIBERTY EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: BREWER MIDDLE, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LIBERTY EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.9%.
LIBERTY EL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Five-year trend. LIBERTY EL's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 640 (now 654). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 44% to 64%.
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