PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 2 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY
PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY is a low-enrollment elementary school in PREMONT, Texas, one of the schools within PREMONT ISD. The school instructs 357 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY sits 31% leaner than that benchmark.
PREMONT ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 794 students; PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY is among them.
On the student-mix side, PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). The wider county runs roughly 80% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Jim Wells County's rate of about 83%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.2%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jim Wells County) records that median household earnings sit near $51,896, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. In all, Jim Wells County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,302 students), of which PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY is one.
Nearest neighbor: PREMONT MONTESSORI ACADEMY, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Over the past 7-year window. PREMONT ERNEST H SINGLETON EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY's enrollment has ticked up 17% since 2018, when it stood at 304 (now 357).
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