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O'BRYANT PRI
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 50 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 11 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About O'BRYANT PRI
O'BRYANT PRI operates as an average-sized K-5 school in BELLVILLE, Texas, one of the schools within BELLVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 563 students spanning grades pre-K through 3.
O'BRYANT PRI is one of 5 schools operated by BELLVILLE ISD, a district that caters to 2,315 students overall.
In terms of who attends, O'BRYANT PRI records that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 39% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, O'BRYANT PRI has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, O'BRYANT PRI performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.3%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of -9.3 points.
In the surrounding community, Austin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,789 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Austin County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,944 students), O'BRYANT PRI is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: O'BRYANT INT, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around O'BRYANT PRI. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts O'BRYANT PRI at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 43.1%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at O'BRYANT PRI has declined 6%, going from 601 students in 2018 to 563 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.
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