MEMORIAL EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 27 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% 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 MEMORIAL EL
MEMORIAL EL is an elementary-level community of intimate scale in NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas, one of the schools within NEW BRAUNFELS ISD, educateing 261 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so MEMORIAL EL sits 50% below that benchmark.
Within NEW BRAUNFELS ISD, which oversees 15 schools and 9,893 students, MEMORIAL EL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, MEMORIAL EL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 41% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 51% of students at MEMORIAL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Comal County's rate of about 32%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MEMORIAL EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.6%; this one delivers 44.8%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Comal County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $101,889 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Comal County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,653 students), MEMORIAL EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: WALNUT SPRINGS EL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MEMORIAL EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MEMORIAL EL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 44.3%.
MEMORIAL EL operates from a city-core location.
Over the past 7-year window. MEMORIAL EL's enrollment has contracted 29% since 2018, when it stood at 367 (now 261). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 46% to 41%.
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