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UVALDE DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 15 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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%.
About UVALDE DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY
UVALDE DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in UVALDE, Texas, part of UVALDE CISD, works with 561 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.
UVALDE CISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,397 students; UVALDE DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY is among them.
On demographics, UVALDE DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY lists that nearly all students (87%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 12% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, UVALDE DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 81% of students at UVALDE DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), UVALDE DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.6%, the actual is 32.0%, a residual of -6.6 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Uvalde County indicate the typical household earns roughly $53,801 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Uvalde County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,371 students), of which UVALDE DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one.
Nearest neighbor: UCISD RESTORATIVE CENTER, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around UVALDE DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts UVALDE DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 33.1%.
The school occupies a small-town site. UVALDE DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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