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STEM ACADEMY AT MEMORIAL EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout STEM ACADEMY AT MEMORIAL EL
STEM ACADEMY AT MEMORIAL EL is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in CARROLLTON, Texas, run under LEWISVILLE ISD, with 742 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so STEM ACADEMY AT MEMORIAL EL sits 43% bigger than that benchmark.
Within LEWISVILLE ISD, which oversees 62 schools and 47,876 students, STEM ACADEMY AT MEMORIAL EL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, STEM ACADEMY AT MEMORIAL EL lists that the largest single group is Asian at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 17% White, 16% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Denton County's rate of about 35%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STEM ACADEMY AT MEMORIAL EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.7%; this one delivers 61.4%.
In the area at large, Denton County reports that median household earnings sit near $111,498, 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 MEMORIAL EL is one of 267 public schools in Denton County (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students).
THE COLONY H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STEM ACADEMY AT MEMORIAL EL. On composite proficiency, STEM ACADEMY AT MEMORIAL EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.7%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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