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LIBERTY-EYLAU EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 37% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LIBERTY-EYLAU EL
LIBERTY-EYLAU EL is a moderately sized primary school in TEXARKANA, Texas, one of the schools within LIBERTY-EYLAU ISD. The school educates 531 students in grades 1 through 4.
Across the 4 schools in LIBERTY-EYLAU ISD (1,937 students total), LIBERTY-EYLAU EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, LIBERTY-EYLAU EL reports that the largest single group is Black at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 25% White, 13% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 25% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 92% of students at LIBERTY-EYLAU EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Bowie County's rate of about 68%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LIBERTY-EYLAU EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.9%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of +3.1 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Bowie County indicate median household income runs about $59,803, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Bowie County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,523 students), LIBERTY-EYLAU EL is one campus in the mix.
LIBERTY-EYLAU MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LIBERTY-EYLAU EL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LIBERTY-EYLAU EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 28.8%.
LIBERTY-EYLAU EL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LIBERTY-EYLAU EL has edged down 20%, going from 662 students in 2018 to 531 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 34% to 25%.
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