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WILLIAMS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 30 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 25 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 47% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
About WILLIAMS EL
WILLIAMS EL is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in GEORGETOWN, Texas, one of the schools within GEORGETOWN ISD, hosting 729 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 40% above the state mean of about 519.
WILLIAMS EL is one of 22 schools operated by GEORGETOWN ISD, a district that caters to 13,881 students overall.
On the student-mix side, WILLIAMS EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% White, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Williamson County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Williamson County's rate of about 29%.
After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, WILLIAMS EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 47.1%; actual is 26.0%, a gap of -21.1 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Williamson County put median household income runs about $111,340, roughly 48% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Williamson County's 208 public schools (combined enrollment of about 126,147 students), WILLIAMS EL is one campus in the mix.
GATEWAY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Williamson County at a glance
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