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If you could change one rule at MARTI EL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
432
Elementary
DISTRICT 430 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLEBURNE ISD·NCES 481431000920
Marti Elementary School
2020 W KILPATRICK, CLEBURNE, TX 76033 · (817) 202-1650 · Johnson County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL432 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of Texas public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
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
13.9:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
305 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 65%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 43 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 14% smaller than its 4th grade class (86).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
Based on grade levels within CLEBURNE ISD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
49.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +37.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
55.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +31.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 37 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 31 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 17.0% | 32.0% | 25.0% | 26.0% |
| Mathematics | 29.0% | 26.0% | 18.0% | 27.0% |
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 | 49.0% | 55.0% |
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 34.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 32.0% |
| 2022-23 | 21.0% | 21.0% |
| 2021-22 | 50.0% | 28.0% |
| 2020-21 | 12.0% | 24.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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%.
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 Marti Elementary School
Marti Elementary School's state test result (34.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marti Elementary School this school | 432 | 70.6% | 34.6% |
| South Georgia Elementary School AMARILLO | 399 | 71.4% | 46.6% |
| Van Vleck Elementary School VAN VLECK | 447 | 66.9% | 41.8% |
| H O Whitehurst Elementary School GROESBECK | 470 | 75.1% | 33.0% |
| Cunningham School WICHITA FALLS | 437 | 66.6% | 33.2% |
| Jacksboro Elementary School JACKSBORO | 442 | 70.8% | 38.6% |
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 Marti Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Johnson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.6% | #3,203 of 4,401 | #27 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,297 of 4,466 ▲ 2,043 | #12 of 33 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #2,609 of 4,466 ▲ 1,121 | #20 of 33 ▲ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +31.0pp | #126 of 3,998 | #3 of 27 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 432 | #3,203 of 4,938 | #22 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,488 of 4,622 | #10 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.0% | #1,324 of 4,628 | #8 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.6% | #2,527 of 4,789 | #9 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.0% | #1,865 of 2,838 | #8 of 21 |
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
432
-28 (-6%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 537
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 432 | 31 | 13.9:1 | 71% (305) |
| 2023-24 | 456 | 34.5 | 13.2:1 | 70% (318) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 34.9 | 14.2:1 | 70% (345) |
| 2020-21 | 460 | 32 | 14.4:1 | 63% (289) |
| 2017-18 | 491 | 32 | 15.3:1 | 62% (303) |
| 2015-16 | 440 | 29 | 15.2:1 | 64% (282) |
| 2010-11 | 463 | 34 | 13.6:1 | 64% (297) |
| 2000-01 | 684 | 41 | 16.7:1 | 51% (348) |
| 1990-91 | 537 | 30 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Marti Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (491 to 432); teachers down 3% (32 to 31).
About Marti Elementary School
As a small elementary school, Marti Elementary School serves students in CLEBURNE, Texas. The school enrolls 432 students, from pre-K through 4.
Marti Elementary School is one of the 11 schools that make up CLEBURNE ISD (6,877 students in total).
White students are the majority at Marti Elementary School, with 53% of enrollment. Other groups make up 33% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial, and 2% Pacific Islander. Johnson County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school's share is lower. Pick two students at random and there is a 61% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 13.9 students per teacher. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 71%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Johnson County is 51%.
allk12 grades Marti Elementary School a C. The grade compares the school only with Texas public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 34.6%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 43.5%.
Census estimates describe Johnson County this way: the median household income is $84,859, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 25%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Besides Marti Elementary School, Johnson County has 76 other public schools.
Cleburne High School is the public school closest to Marti Elementary School, about 1.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 42.4%; Marti Elementary School's is 34.6%, ranking 8th of 8.
Marti Elementary School is in rural territory close to an urban area, a location NCES labels Rural: Fringe.
Enrollment at Marti Elementary School dropped 6% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 460 to 432 students.
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Johnson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
195,597
Census ACS
Median income
$84,859
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
77
39,004 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in CLEBURNE ISD
- Cleburne High SchoolHigh · 1,849 students
- Ad Wheat Middle SchoolMiddle · 998 students
- Lowell Smith Jr Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 958 students
- Cooke Elementary SchoolElementary · 501 students
- Gerard Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
- Coleman Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
Other schools in CLEBURNE
- Cleburne High SchoolHigh · 1,849 students
- Ad Wheat Middle SchoolMiddle · 998 students
- Lowell Smith Jr Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 958 students
- Cooke Elementary SchoolElementary · 501 students
- Gerard Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
- Coleman Elementary SchoolElementary · 434 students
Nearby schools
- Cleburne High School1.4 mi · 1,849
- Ad Wheat Middle School1.6 mi · 998
- Cooke Elementary School1.7 mi · 501
- Coleman Elementary School2.8 mi · 434
- Irving Elementary School3.4 mi · 405
- Gerard Elementary School3.5 mi · 474
Frequently asked questions
About Marti Elementary SchoolHow large is Marti Elementary School?
Marti Elementary School enrolls approximately 432 students in grades PK-04.
Is Marti Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Marti Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
How many students per teacher at Marti Elementary School?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at Marti Elementary School.
How diverse is Marti Elementary School?
Marti Elementary School reports a student body of 53% White, 33% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Marti Elementary School public or private?
Marti Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by CLEBURNE ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.