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SUSIE FUENTES EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 38 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 SUSIE FUENTES EL
SUSIE FUENTES EL is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in KYLE, Texas, part of HAYS CISD, with 726 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 40% above typical.
HAYS CISD runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 24,330 students. SUSIE FUENTES EL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, SUSIE FUENTES EL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 67%. Other groups include 22% White, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Hays County as a whole is about 39% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, SUSIE FUENTES EL has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at SUSIE FUENTES EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hays County (around 46%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, SUSIE FUENTES EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 35.9%, a residual of -12.8 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Hays County) shows that median household income runs about $89,097, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. SUSIE FUENTES EL is one of 63 public schools in Hays County (combined enrollment of about 46,946 students).
The closest other public school is IDEA KYLE COLLEGE PREPARATORY, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUSIE FUENTES EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SUSIE FUENTES EL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 47.2%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUSIE FUENTES EL has increased 20%, going from 607 students in 2018 to 726 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 30% to 22% across the same window.
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