LITTLE CYPRESS 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 42 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 19 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LITTLE CYPRESS INT
As a close-knit primary school in ORANGE, Texas, LITTLE CYPRESS INT instructs 344 students from grades 4 through 5, operated by LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 519.
Across the 6 schools in LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE CISD (3,320 students total), LITTLE CYPRESS INT accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, LITTLE CYPRESS INT shows that White students make up the majority at 69%. Beyond that, the school lists 15% Black, 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LITTLE CYPRESS INT tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LITTLE CYPRESS INT falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.7%; this one comes in at 30.3%, -18.5 points off the demographic line.
In the surrounding community, census data for Orange County shows median household income runs about $72,104, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Orange County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,100 students), of which LITTLE CYPRESS INT is one.
LITTLE CYPRESS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LITTLE CYPRESS INT. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LITTLE CYPRESS INT at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 32.1%.
The school occupies a town-based site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LITTLE CYPRESS INT has edged up 18%, going from 292 students in 2018 to 344 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.
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