Enrollment
351
Elementary
DISTRICT 396 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TEXARKANA ISD·NCES 484248011422
Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School
4826 UNIVERSITY PARK, TEXARKANA, TX 75503 · (903) 791-2262 · Bowie County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL351 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Texas public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
118 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 66 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 32% larger than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School→Texas Middle School
Based on grade levels within TEXARKANA ISD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
93.0%
TX avg 54.5% . -2.0pp since 2023
Mathematics
99.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 99 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 70.0% | 23.0% | 6.0% | 1.0% |
| Mathematics | 78.0% | 21.0% | 1.0% | 0.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 93.0% | 99.0% |
| 2024-25 | 91.0% | 95.0% |
| 2023-24 | 95.0% | 98.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
94.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+35.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 95% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 36 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School
Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School's state test result (94.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School this school | 351 | 33.6% | 94.9% |
| Waggoner Creek Elementary School TEXARKANA | 337 | 41.5% | 43.9% |
| Merriman Park Elementary School DALLAS | 446 | 33.9% | 52.3% |
| Reuben Johnson Elementary School MCKINNEY | 378 | 28.0% | 47.8% |
| Woodland Springs Elementary School KELLER | 466 | 31.3% | 60.9% |
| Ethridge Elementary School THE COLONY | 329 | 37.1% | 51.0% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bowie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 94.9% | #1 of 4,401 | #1 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 99.0% | #2 of 4,466 ▲ 2 | #1 of 17 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #17 of 4,466 ▲ 22 | #1 of 17 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 351 | #3,871 of 4,938 | #9 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #3,432 of 4,622 | #19 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.9% | #1,335 of 4,628 | #5 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.6% | #4,133 of 4,789 | #20 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.8% | #1,708 of 2,838 | #5 of 14 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
351
+15 (+4%) vs 2020
-20% since 2010-11, when it was 437
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 15.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 351 | 21.7 | 16.2:1 | 34% (118) |
| 2023-24 | 360 | 23.5 | 15.3:1 | 29% (106) |
| 2022-23 | 358 | 22.5 | 15.9:1 | 28% (101) |
| 2020-21 | 336 | 22 | 15.3:1 | 25% (85) |
| 2017-18 | 407 | 21.1 | 19.3:1 | 19% (76) |
| 2015-16 | 412 | 21 | 19.6:1 | 21% (85) |
| 2010-11 | 437 | 23 | 19.0:1 | 12% (52) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (407 to 351); teachers up 3% (21.1 to 21.7).
About Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School
Students in TEXARKANA, Texas, attend Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school. Enrollment totals 351 students across kindergarten through 5. Across elementary schools in Texas, the average enrollment is about 519.
TEXARKANA ISD oversees Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School and 12 other schools, with 7,269 students in total.
More than half of the students at Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School are White (58%). Other reported shares: 19% Black, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 6% Asian. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 61%.
A staff of 21.7 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 16.2:1. Compared with the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas, this school's ratio is higher. By family income, 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Bowie County is 68%.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School outscored 99%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School would score about 59.3%. It scores 94.9%, a top-10% result among Texas schools on BeatsExpectations.
For Bowie County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $59,803 a year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Counting Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School, Bowie County has 46 public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Pleasant Grove High School, is about 0.2 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School ranks 1st in a group of 7 nearby schools.
NCES assigns Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment increased by 4% across 4 years, from 336 in 2020-21 to 351 in 2024-25.
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Bowie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
92,115
Census ACS
Median income
$59,803
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
17,523 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in TEXARKANA ISD
- Texas High SchoolHigh · 1,750 students
- Texas Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,421 students
- Nash Elementary SchoolElementary · 667 students
- Wake Village Elementary SchoolElementary · 539 students
- Digital Academy of TexasHigh · 471 students
- Highland Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 427 students
Other schools in TEXARKANA
- Texas High SchoolHigh · 1,750 students
- Texas Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,421 students
- Pleasant Grove High SchoolHigh · 821 students
- Liberty-Eylau Middle SchoolMiddle · 594 students
- Liberty-Eylau High SchoolHigh · 543 students
- Pleasant Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 537 students
Nearby schools
- Pleasant Grove High School0.2 mi · 821
- Waggoner Creek Elementary School1.0 mi · 337
- Pleasant Grove Intermediate School1.5 mi · 514
- Nash Elementary School1.5 mi · 667
- Pleasant Grove Middle School1.7 mi · 537
- Margaret Fischer Davis Elementary School2.1 mi · 494
Frequently asked questions
About Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School?
Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School enrolls approximately 351 students in grades KG-05.
Is Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School is approximately 16.2:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School?
Student demographics at Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School are roughly 58% White, 7% Hispanic, 19% Black, 6% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School in?
Martha & Josh Morriss Math & Engineering Elementary School is part of TEXARKANA ISD.
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