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RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN 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 42 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 15 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL
RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL operates as a moderately sized primary school in GLENN HEIGHTS, Texas, part of RED OAK ISD. Current enrollment sits at 756 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 46% bigger than typical.
RED OAK ISD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 6,696 students; RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL is among them.
Looking at the student body, RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL logs that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 6% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Ellis County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ellis County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.7%; this one delivers 34.6%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Ellis County put the typical household earns roughly $99,595 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ellis County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students), RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: SHIELDS EL, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RUSSELL P SCHUPMANN EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 84%: 411 students in 2018 compared to 756 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 29% to 6% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.
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