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WALT DISNEY EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 16 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 WALT DISNEY EL
WALT DISNEY EL, a moderately sized elementary-level community in ALVIN, Texas, one of the schools within ALVIN ISD, enrolls 457 students, covering grades 3 through 5.
WALT DISNEY EL is one of 37 schools operated by ALVIN ISD, a district that hosts 30,038 students overall.
Demographically, WALT DISNEY EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 55% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 38% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Brazoria County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Brazoria County's rate of about 50%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WALT DISNEY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.1%.
In the area at large, census data for Brazoria County shows median household earnings sit near $97,993, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Brazoria County's 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), WALT DISNEY EL is one campus in the mix.
R L STEVENSON PRI is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WALT DISNEY EL at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 46.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Five-year trend. WALT DISNEY EL's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 542 (now 457). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.
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