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MARY ORR INT
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 MARY ORR INT
As a mid-tier middle-grades school in MANSFIELD, Texas, MARY ORR INT hosts 605 students from grades 5 through 6, overseen by MANSFIELD ISD.
MANSFIELD ISD runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 35,354 students. MARY ORR INT is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, MARY ORR INT shows that the most-represented group is White (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 29% Black, 28% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MARY ORR INT has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at MARY ORR INT qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MARY ORR INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.2%, the actual is 47.4%, a residual of -4.8 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), MARY ORR INT is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: MANSFIELD H S, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARY ORR INT. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MARY ORR INT at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 59.3%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Five-year trend. MARY ORR INT's enrollment has fell 27% since 2018, when it stood at 830 (now 605). Black enrollment moved from 21% to 29% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.
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