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RADCLIFFE & SUE KILLAM EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 23 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 29 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 RADCLIFFE & SUE KILLAM EL
RADCLIFFE & SUE KILLAM EL operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in LAREDO, Texas, run under UNITED ISD. Current enrollment sits at 631 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% above the state mean of about 519.
UNITED ISD runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 40,742 students. RADCLIFFE & SUE KILLAM EL is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, RADCLIFFE & SUE KILLAM EL lists that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Compared to Webb County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, RADCLIFFE & SUE KILLAM EL records 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, RADCLIFFE & SUE KILLAM EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.6%, the actual is 41.6%, a residual of +7.0 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Webb County put the typical household earns roughly $63,058 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. In all, Webb County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students), of which RADCLIFFE & SUE KILLAM EL is one.
The closest other public school is HENRY CUELLAR EL, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RADCLIFFE & SUE KILLAM EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RADCLIFFE & SUE KILLAM EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 49.6%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. RADCLIFFE & SUE KILLAM EL's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 695 (now 631). Class-load math has tightened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.
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