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ROSA PARKS/MILLBROOK 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 55 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 41 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 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 ROSA PARKS/MILLBROOK EL
ROSA PARKS/MILLBROOK EL is a low-enrollment K-5 school in LANCASTER, Texas, operated by LANCASTER ISD. The school teaches 416 students in grades pre-K through 5.
ROSA PARKS/MILLBROOK EL is one of 10 schools operated by LANCASTER ISD, a district that educates 6,822 students overall.
Looking at the student body, ROSA PARKS/MILLBROOK EL shows that nearly all students (86%) are Black. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, ROSA PARKS/MILLBROOK EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.1%; this one delivers 42.6%.
In the surrounding community, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), ROSA PARKS/MILLBROOK EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: ILTEXAS LANCASTER EL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROSA PARKS/MILLBROOK EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROSA PARKS/MILLBROOK EL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 27.2%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROSA PARKS/MILLBROOK EL has ticked down 16%, going from 496 students in 2018 to 416 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.
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