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PEASTER EL
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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 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 36 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 39 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 60% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PEASTER EL
Set in WEATHERFORD, Texas, PEASTER EL is a medium-sized primary school, run under PEASTER ISD. It teaches 525 students across grades pre-K through 3.
PEASTER ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,776 students; PEASTER EL is among them.
On demographics, PEASTER EL shows that White students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school lists 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, PEASTER EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 59.7%; PEASTER EL posts 45.5%, -14.2 points below that line.
Zooming out to the county, Parker County reports that median household earnings sit near $104,443, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. PEASTER EL is one of 51 public schools in Parker County (combined enrollment of about 28,354 students).
Nearest neighbor: PEASTER INT, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PEASTER EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 45.3%.
PEASTER EL operates from a rural location.
Five-year trend. PEASTER EL's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 627 (now 525). Over the same period, the White share declined from 85% to 74%. Class-load math has widened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.
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