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MAGNOLIA INT
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 34 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 21 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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%.
About MAGNOLIA INT
Located at 31164 NICHOLS SAWMILL RD, in MAGNOLIA, Texas, MAGNOLIA INT is a roomy intermediate school that enrolls 1,154 students (grades 5 through 6), one of the schools within MAGNOLIA ISD. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 79% larger than typical.
MAGNOLIA INT is one of 17 schools operated by MAGNOLIA ISD, a district that teaches 14,916 students overall.
Demographically, MAGNOLIA INT logs that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 45% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, MAGNOLIA INT reports 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting MAGNOLIA INT higher than the state norm the norm. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Montgomery County (around 48%), the school's rate is north of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, MAGNOLIA INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.2%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of +1.2 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,701, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 134,595 students), of which MAGNOLIA INT is one.
Nearest neighbor: MAGNOLIA J H, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MAGNOLIA INT. On composite proficiency, MAGNOLIA INT comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.7%.
The school occupies a town-center site.
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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