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ROSEMEADE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 28 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 20 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 ROSEMEADE EL
ROSEMEADE EL, a cozy elementary school in CARROLLTON, Texas, run under CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD, hosts 360 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 31% leaner than typical.
CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 24,165 students; ROSEMEADE EL is among them.
On the student-mix side, ROSEMEADE EL lists that 36% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% White, 13% Asian, 10% multiracial, 8% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, ROSEMEADE EL lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROSEMEADE EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.1%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Denton County shows median household earnings sit near $111,498, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which ROSEMEADE EL is one.
CREEKVIEW H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROSEMEADE EL. On composite proficiency, ROSEMEADE EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.4%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROSEMEADE EL has contracted 19%, going from 445 students in 2018 to 360 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.
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Denton County at a glance
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