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MCANALLY MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 32 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 23 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 MCANALLY MIDDLE
MCANALLY MIDDLE, a moderately sized intermediate school in FORT WORTH, Texas, one of the schools within ALEDO ISD, caters to 898 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 40% above the state mean of about 643.
MCANALLY MIDDLE is one of 12 schools operated by ALEDO ISD, a district that enrolls 8,430 students overall.
In terms of who attends, MCANALLY MIDDLE reports that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MCANALLY MIDDLE has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 19% of students at MCANALLY MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Parker County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MCANALLY MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.8%; this one delivers 62.8%.
Across the wider county, Parker County reports that median household income runs about $104,443, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. MCANALLY MIDDLE is one of 51 public schools in Parker County (combined enrollment of about 28,354 students).
The closest other public school is LYNN MCKINNEY EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MCANALLY MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 63.3%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
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Parker County at a glance
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