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TAYLOR EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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 TAYLOR EL
TAYLOR EL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in COLLEYVILLE, Texas, run under GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD. The school caters to 511 students in grades pre-K through 5.
TAYLOR EL is one of 20 schools operated by GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD, a district that instructs 13,541 students overall.
Demographically, TAYLOR EL logs that White students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, TAYLOR EL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 7% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Tarrant County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, TAYLOR EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.9%, the actual is 76.0%, a residual of +5.1 points.
In the surrounding community, Tarrant County reports that median household income runs about $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), TAYLOR EL is one campus in the mix.
HERITAGE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TAYLOR EL at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 73.9%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. TAYLOR EL's enrollment has grew 4% since 2018, when it stood at 490 (now 511). White enrollment moved from 69% to 64% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.
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