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W H BONNER 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 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About W H BONNER EL
W H BONNER EL, an average-sized elementary school in LUFKIN, Texas, part of HUDSON ISD, instructs 621 students, covering grades 3 through 5.
HUDSON ISD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,777 students; W H BONNER EL is among them.
On demographics, W H BONNER EL records that 59% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 27% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, W H BONNER EL records 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 52% of students at W H BONNER EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Angelina County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.
With demographic context factored in, W H BONNER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.3%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of -0.3 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Angelina County put median household income runs about $60,960, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Angelina County runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,649 students), of which W H BONNER EL is one.
The closest other public school is W F PEAVY PRI, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around W H BONNER EL. On composite proficiency, W H BONNER EL comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.
W H BONNER EL operates from a small-town location.
Looking at the recent track record. W H BONNER EL's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 679 (now 621). Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.
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