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SANTA RITA EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 34 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 37 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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%.
About SANTA RITA EL
SANTA RITA EL is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in LIBERTY HILL, Texas, overseen by LIBERTY HILL ISD, hosting 745 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% larger than the state mean of about 519.
Within LIBERTY HILL ISD, which oversees 11 schools and 9,836 students, SANTA RITA EL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, SANTA RITA EL logs that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 20% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Black.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, SANTA RITA EL has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SANTA RITA EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Williamson County (around 29%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SANTA RITA EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.1%; this one delivers 56.8%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Williamson County) shows that median household income runs about $111,340, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Williamson County runs 208 public schools (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students), of which SANTA RITA EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: SANTA RITA MIDDLE, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SANTA RITA EL at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 57.7%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
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