NED E WILLIAMS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 10 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 37% 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 NED E WILLIAMS EL
NED E WILLIAMS EL operates as an intimate primary school in LONGVIEW, Texas, one of the schools within LONGVIEW ISD. Current enrollment sits at 352 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 32% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
Across the 14 schools in LONGVIEW ISD (8,138 students total), NED E WILLIAMS EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, NED E WILLIAMS EL reports that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 35% Hispanic, 8% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, NED E WILLIAMS EL shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 94% of students at NED E WILLIAMS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Gregg County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, NED E WILLIAMS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 37.1%, a residual of +4.3 points.
Zooming out to the county, Gregg County reports that median household income runs about $66,550, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Gregg County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,498 students), of which NED E WILLIAMS EL is one.
The closest other public school is HUDSON EL, roughly 4.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, NED E WILLIAMS EL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.
NED E WILLIAMS EL operates from a rural location. NED E WILLIAMS EL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Over the past 7-year window. NED E WILLIAMS EL's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 402 (now 352). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.
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