VICKERS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 11 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% 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 VICKERS EL
VICKERS EL operates as a mid-sized elementary school in VICTORIA, Texas, one of the schools within VICTORIA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 510 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
VICTORIA ISD comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 12,919 students; VICKERS EL is among them.
In terms of who attends, VICKERS EL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 42% White, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. Compared to Victoria County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Victoria County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, VICKERS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.7%, the actual is 51.6%, a residual of -2.1 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Victoria County put the typical household earns roughly $70,896 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Victoria County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,160 students), of which VICKERS EL is one.
The closest other public school is ELLA SCHORLEMMER EL, roughly 1.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), VICKERS EL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 38.1%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Over the past 7-year window. VICKERS EL's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 577 (now 510). White enrollment moved from 49% to 42% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.
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