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WILLIAM F BARNETT 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 54 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 36 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 27 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 WILLIAM F BARNETT EL
WILLIAM F BARNETT EL operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in SANTA FE, Texas, run under SANTA FE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 640 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% bigger than the state mean of about 519.
SANTA FE ISD runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,310 students. WILLIAM F BARNETT EL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, WILLIAM F BARNETT EL logs that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 30% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Galveston County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 56% of students at WILLIAM F BARNETT EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WILLIAM F BARNETT EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.4%; this one delivers 59.8%.
In the broader community, Galveston County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,105 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WILLIAM F BARNETT EL is one of 95 public schools in Galveston County (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students).
ROY J WOLLAM EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WILLIAM F BARNETT EL comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.
WILLIAM F BARNETT EL operates from an outer-ring location.
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