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PRICE T YOUNG EL
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STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are down about 5 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% 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.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PRICE T YOUNG EL
PRICE T YOUNG EL is one of the mid-sized elementary-level communitys in MARSHALL, Texas, run under MARSHALL ISD, with 550 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.
PRICE T YOUNG EL is one of 8 schools operated by MARSHALL ISD, a district that works with 4,957 students overall.
Demographically, PRICE T YOUNG EL shows that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 34% Hispanic, 14% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 20% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, PRICE T YOUNG EL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harrison County (around 61%), the school's rate is north of typical.
With demographic context factored in, PRICE T YOUNG EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.9%; PRICE T YOUNG EL posts 16.9%, -17.0 points below that line.
In the surrounding community, census data for Harrison County shows median household income runs about $66,103, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Harrison County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,062 students), of which PRICE T YOUNG EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: MARSHALL ECH CTR, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PRICE T YOUNG EL comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 532 students in 2018 compared to 550 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 63% to 44%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Harrison County at a glance
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