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NARCISO CAVAZOS
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 39 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 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 11 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 NARCISO CAVAZOS
NARCISO CAVAZOS operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in MISSION, Texas, one of the schools within LA JOYA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 471 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
LA JOYA ISD runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 22,942 students. NARCISO CAVAZOS is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, NARCISO CAVAZOS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%).
Looking at school resources, NARCISO CAVAZOS logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 94% of students at NARCISO CAVAZOS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hidalgo County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, NARCISO CAVAZOS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.5%.
Around the school, census data for Hidalgo County shows median household income runs about $54,338, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. NARCISO CAVAZOS is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).
Nearest neighbor: PATRICIO PEREZ EL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NARCISO CAVAZOS comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.1%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Trend over the last 7 years. NARCISO CAVAZOS's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 491 (now 471).
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