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PINE BURR EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 12 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 32% 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.
About PINE BURR EL
As a sizable elementary school in CLEVELAND, Texas, PINE BURR EL enrolls 1,017 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by CLEVELAND ISD. That puts it 96% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
Within CLEVELAND ISD, which oversees 11 schools and 12,513 students, PINE BURR EL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, PINE BURR EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). The remainder is composed of 5% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 40%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 95% of students at PINE BURR EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Liberty County's rate of about 80%.
With demographic context factored in, PINE BURR EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.2%; this one comes in at 14.9%, -17.3 points off the demographic line.
In the area at large, Liberty County reports that median household income runs about $68,703, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Liberty County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,599 students), of which PINE BURR EL is one.
ILTEXAS BG RAMIREZ MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PINE BURR EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PINE BURR EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 18.6%.
PINE BURR EL operates from a countryside location.
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Liberty County at a glance
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