PORT NECHES INT
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 64 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 PORT NECHES INT
PORT NECHES INT is an average-sized primary school in PORT NECHES, Texas, part of PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD. The school caters to 607 students in grades 3 through 5.
PORT NECHES-GROVES ISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,349 students; PORT NECHES INT is among them.
Looking at the student body, PORT NECHES INT lists that 58% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 26% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 40% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, PORT NECHES INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.1%, the actual is 51.6%, a residual of -4.5 points.
In the broader community, Jefferson County reports that median household earnings sit near $60,026, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students), PORT NECHES INT is one campus in the mix.
ALTER SCH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PORT NECHES INT. On composite proficiency, PORT NECHES INT comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.1%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
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