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ROWLAND EL
Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are down about 11 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 ROWLAND EL
Set in VICTORIA, Texas, ROWLAND EL is a reasonably sized elementary campus, run under VICTORIA ISD. It works with 452 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 25 schools in VICTORIA ISD (12,919 students total), ROWLAND EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, ROWLAND EL reports that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 15% White, 9% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Victoria County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Victoria County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, ROWLAND EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.0%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -12.9 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Victoria County put median household income runs about $70,896, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Victoria County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,160 students), ROWLAND EL is one campus in the mix.
HOWELL MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROWLAND EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROWLAND EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 29.8%.
The school occupies an inner-city site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 4%: 471 students in 2018 compared to 452 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.
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