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SEALY EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout SEALY EL
SEALY EL is an average-sized elementary campus in SEALY, Texas, part of SEALY ISD. The school instructs 694 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SEALY EL sits 34% larger than that benchmark.
SEALY ISD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 3,109 students. SEALY EL is one of those campuses.
Demographically, SEALY EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 55% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 33% White, 7% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.
On the resource side, SEALY EL records 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 66% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Austin County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SEALY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.9%, the actual is 54.0%, a residual of +9.1 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Austin County) records that the typical household earns roughly $75,789 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. SEALY EL is one of 12 public schools in Austin County (combined enrollment of about 5,944 students).
SEALY J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SEALY EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.6%.
The campus sits in a town-based setting.
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