THREE WAY PK-6
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 43% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
About THREE WAY PK-6
THREE WAY PK-6 operates as a micro-enrollment elementary-level community in STEPHENVILLE, Texas, run under THREE WAY ISD. Current enrollment sits at 136 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so THREE WAY PK-6 sits 74% below that benchmark.
Within THREE WAY ISD, which oversees 2 schools and 212 students, THREE WAY PK-6 is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, THREE WAY PK-6 logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 46% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.
On the income-and-resources front, THREE WAY PK-6 records 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting THREE WAY PK-6 tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Erath County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, THREE WAY PK-6 is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.7%; THREE WAY PK-6 posts 23.4%, -19.3 points below that line.
Across the wider county, Erath County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,115 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Erath County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,893 students), THREE WAY PK-6 is one campus in the mix.
THREE WAY JH/HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, THREE WAY PK-6 comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.
The school occupies a rural site.
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