ROCKETSHIP DENNIS DUNKINS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 42% 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.
About ROCKETSHIP DENNIS DUNKINS EL
ROCKETSHIP DENNIS DUNKINS EL operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in FORT WORTH, Texas, operated by ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 442 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
ROCKETSHIP DENNIS DUNKINS EL is one of 2 schools operated by ROCKETSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS, a district that instructs 731 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, ROCKETSHIP DENNIS DUNKINS EL records that Black students make up the majority at 77%. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, ROCKETSHIP DENNIS DUNKINS EL has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ROCKETSHIP DENNIS DUNKINS EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROCKETSHIP DENNIS DUNKINS EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.0%; this one comes in at 18.5%, -23.5 points off the demographic line.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put median household income runs about $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), ROCKETSHIP DENNIS DUNKINS EL is one campus in the mix.
T A SIMS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ROCKETSHIP DENNIS DUNKINS EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.3%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting. ROCKETSHIP DENNIS DUNKINS EL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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