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MILLSAP EL
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STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 23 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 30 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MILLSAP EL
MILLSAP EL, a mid-sized elementary-level community in MILLSAP, Texas, one of the schools within MILLSAP ISD, serves 531 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
MILLSAP EL is one of 3 schools operated by MILLSAP ISD, a district that instructs 1,083 students overall.
On demographics, MILLSAP EL logs that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Parker County's rate of about 33%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MILLSAP EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.3%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of -13.2 points.
Around the school, Parker County reports that the typical household earns roughly $104,443 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Parker County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,354 students), of which MILLSAP EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: MILLSAP H S, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around MILLSAP EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MILLSAP EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.2%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 8%: 491 students in 2018 compared to 531 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 75% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.
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Parker County at a glance
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