TROY EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 26 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 TROY EL
TROY EL is one of the modestly sized K-5 schools in TROY, Texas, overseen by TROY ISD, with 379 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 27% leaner than the state mean of about 519.
TROY ISD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,732 students. TROY EL is one of those campuses.
Demographically, TROY EL logs that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 37% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.
On the resource side, On paper, TROY EL has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting TROY EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bell County (around 57%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TROY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.3%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Bell County put median household income runs about $68,865, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. TROY EL is one of 130 public schools in Bell County (combined enrollment of about 71,041 students).
TROY H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around TROY EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TROY EL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 44.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 20%: 475 students in 2018 compared to 379 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 56% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.
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