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NANCY NEAL EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 33 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 57% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NANCY NEAL EL
NANCY NEAL EL is a compact primary school in MANSFIELD, Texas, run under MANSFIELD ISD. The school enrolls 427 students in grades pre-K through 4.
Across the 47 schools in MANSFIELD ISD (35,354 students total), NANCY NEAL EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, NANCY NEAL EL lists that the largest single group is White at 35%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 29% Hispanic, 21% Black, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.
On the resource side, On paper, NANCY NEAL EL has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NANCY NEAL EL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 56.9%; this one delivers 77.3%, a residual of +20.4 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) reports that median household income runs about $84,207, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NANCY NEAL EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
The closest other public school is LINDA JOBE MIDDLE, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NANCY NEAL EL. On composite proficiency, NANCY NEAL EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Trend over the last 7 years. NANCY NEAL EL's enrollment has declined 3% since 2018, when it stood at 442 (now 427). The White share of enrollment shrank from 55% to 35% over that span.
On the community side, members of the NANCY NEAL EL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Tarrant County at a glance
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