PIONEER TECHNOLOGY (PTAA) ROYSE CITY EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 31 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
About PIONEER TECHNOLOGY (PTAA) ROYSE CITY EL
PIONEER TECHNOLOGY (PTAA) ROYSE CITY EL is one of the minimally staffed elementary-level communitys in ROYSE CITY, Texas, one of the schools within PIONEER TECHNOLOGY & ARTS ACADEMY, with 194 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 63% leaner than the state mean of about 519.
Within PIONEER TECHNOLOGY & ARTS ACADEMY, which oversees 6 schools and 2,328 students, PIONEER TECHNOLOGY (PTAA) ROYSE CITY EL is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, PIONEER TECHNOLOGY (PTAA) ROYSE CITY EL records that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Black, 26% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting PIONEER TECHNOLOGY (PTAA) ROYSE CITY EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 25% of students at PIONEER TECHNOLOGY (PTAA) ROYSE CITY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, PIONEER TECHNOLOGY (PTAA) ROYSE CITY EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.1%; this one delivers 49.3%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Rockwall County put median household income runs about $127,981, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. In all, Rockwall County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,104 students), of which PIONEER TECHNOLOGY (PTAA) ROYSE CITY EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: ANITA SCOTT EL, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PIONEER TECHNOLOGY (PTAA) ROYSE CITY EL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-center area. As a public charter, PIONEER TECHNOLOGY (PTAA) ROYSE CITY EL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
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