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RICHARD ALLIE MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 17 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 RICHARD ALLIE MIDDLE
RICHARD ALLIE MIDDLE is one of the large intermediate schools in CROWLEY, Texas, overseen by CROWLEY ISD, with 1,008 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 57% bigger than typical.
RICHARD ALLIE MIDDLE is one of 24 schools operated by CROWLEY ISD, a district that teaches 17,011 students overall.
Demographically, RICHARD ALLIE MIDDLE shows that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 34% Hispanic, 12% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RICHARD ALLIE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.5%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of -1.6 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), RICHARD ALLIE MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is BESS RACE EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RICHARD ALLIE MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RICHARD ALLIE MIDDLE at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 41.9%.
RICHARD ALLIE MIDDLE operates from a residential location.
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