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LLOYD R FERGUSON EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 58 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 43 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LLOYD R FERGUSON EL
LLOYD R FERGUSON EL operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in LEAGUE CITY, Texas, operated by CLEAR CREEK ISD. Current enrollment sits at 700 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so LLOYD R FERGUSON EL sits 35% bigger than that benchmark.
CLEAR CREEK ISD runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 39,684 students. LLOYD R FERGUSON EL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, LLOYD R FERGUSON EL records that White students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, LLOYD R FERGUSON EL logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 35% 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, Galveston County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, LLOYD R FERGUSON EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.8%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Galveston County) records that median household earnings sit near $86,105, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Galveston County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students), LLOYD R FERGUSON EL is one campus in the mix.
I W AND ELEANOR HYDE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LLOYD R FERGUSON EL. On composite proficiency, LLOYD R FERGUSON EL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Over the past 7-year window. LLOYD R FERGUSON EL's enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 762 (now 700).
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