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WILMA MAGEE INT
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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 49 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 2022, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 WILMA MAGEE INT
WILMA MAGEE INT is one of the intimate primary schools in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, run under CALALLEN ISD, with 419 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5.
CALALLEN ISD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,745 students; WILMA MAGEE INT is among them.
On the student-mix side, WILMA MAGEE INT reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%. The remainder looks like 22% White. By comparison, Nueces County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WILMA MAGEE INT has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, WILMA MAGEE INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.1%, the actual is 45.7%, a residual of +0.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, Nueces County reports that median household income runs about $66,897, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. WILMA MAGEE INT is one of 124 public schools in Nueces County (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students).
Nearest neighbor: CALALLEN MIDDLE, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILMA MAGEE INT. On composite proficiency, WILMA MAGEE INT comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Nueces County at a glance
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