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MRS JERRY BRYANT EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 66 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 12 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 MRS JERRY BRYANT EL
MRS JERRY BRYANT EL operates as a big elementary campus in PROSPER, Texas, part of PROSPER ISD. Current enrollment sits at 917 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 77% above the state mean of about 519.
PROSPER ISD runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 31,651 students. MRS JERRY BRYANT EL is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, MRS JERRY BRYANT EL records that the most-represented group is Asian (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% White, 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Denton County as a whole is about 11% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MRS JERRY BRYANT EL has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 3% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, MRS JERRY BRYANT EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.2%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Denton County put the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), MRS JERRY BRYANT EL is one campus in the mix.
WINDSONG RANCH EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MRS JERRY BRYANT EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.8%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Denton County at a glance
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