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RANCHO ISABELLA EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 36 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 35 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RANCHO ISABELLA EL
RANCHO ISABELLA EL is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in ANGLETON, Texas, overseen by ANGLETON ISD, with 464 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
RANCHO ISABELLA EL is one of 10 schools operated by ANGLETON ISD, a district that serves 7,105 students overall.
In terms of who attends, RANCHO ISABELLA EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% White, 15% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.
On the income-and-resources front, RANCHO ISABELLA EL shows 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Brazoria County's rate of about 50%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RANCHO ISABELLA EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.7%.
Around the school, census data for Brazoria County shows median household income runs about $97,993, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Brazoria County's 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), RANCHO ISABELLA EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: ANGLETON J H SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RANCHO ISABELLA EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.3%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Five-year trend. RANCHO ISABELLA EL's enrollment has ticked up 29% since 2018, when it stood at 359 (now 464). White enrollment moved from 45% to 34% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.
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