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SONNY & ALLEGRA NANCE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 23 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 21 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 SONNY & ALLEGRA NANCE EL
SONNY & ALLEGRA NANCE EL, a mid-sized K-5 school in FORT WORTH, Texas, part of NORTHWEST ISD, serves 533 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
NORTHWEST ISD runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 32,098 students. SONNY & ALLEGRA NANCE EL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, SONNY & ALLEGRA NANCE EL shows that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 25% Hispanic, 19% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian.
On the income-and-resources front, SONNY & ALLEGRA NANCE EL logs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 35% of students at SONNY & ALLEGRA NANCE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
With demographic context factored in, SONNY & ALLEGRA NANCE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.5%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of -9.6 points.
In the broader community, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which SONNY & ALLEGRA NANCE EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: BERKSHIRE EL, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SONNY & ALLEGRA NANCE EL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.9%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SONNY & ALLEGRA NANCE EL has ticked down 7%, going from 572 students in 2018 to 533 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 42% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.
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