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STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL
STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL is one of the mid-sized primary schools in FLOWER MOUND, Texas, run under LEWISVILLE ISD, with 569 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 62 schools in LEWISVILLE ISD (47,876 students total), STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 17% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 4% of students at STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.2%, the actual is 72.9%, a residual of +0.7 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Denton County put the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).
The closest other public school is FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF FLOWER MOUND, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL. On composite proficiency, STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 73.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Five-year trend. STEM ACADEMY AT BRIDLEWOOD EL's enrollment has expanded 42% since 2018, when it stood at 402 (now 569). The White share of enrollment contracted from 80% to 63% over that span.
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