MORAN SCHOOL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 MORAN SCHOOL
MORAN SCHOOL is a minimally staffed all-grades campus in MORAN, Texas, one of the schools within MORAN ISD. The school instructs 115 students in grades pre-K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 76% leaner than the state mean of about 485.
MORAN SCHOOL is a school of MORAN ISD, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
On the student-mix side, MORAN SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). The remainder is composed of 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Shackelford County's rate of about 48%.
With demographic context factored in, MORAN SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.0%; this one delivers 24.6%.
In the surrounding community, Shackelford County reports that median household income runs about $73,047, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Shackelford County's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 589 students), MORAN SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is ALBANY JR-SR H S, roughly 14.1 miles away. On composite proficiency, MORAN SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MORAN SCHOOL has shrank 11%, going from 129 students in 2018 to 115 in 2025.
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