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How has WOODWAY EL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
547
Elementary
DISTRICT 515 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIDWAY ISD·NCES 483064003462
Woodway Elementary School
325 ESTATES DR, WACO, TX 76712 · (254) 761-5740 · McLennan County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL547 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
172 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 46 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 102 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 83 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (83).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
83.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +40.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
72.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +22.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 40 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 22 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 56.0% | 27.0% | 10.0% | 7.0% |
| Mathematics | 38.0% | 34.0% | 17.0% | 11.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 83.0% | 72.0% |
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 72.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 66.0% |
| 2022-23 | 43.0% | 57.0% |
| 2021-22 | 38.0% | 54.0% |
| 2020-21 | 43.0% | 50.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
69.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Woodway Elementary School
Woodway Elementary School's state test result (69.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodway Elementary School this school | 547 | 31.4% | 69.3% |
| Tom R Ellisor Elementary School MAGNOLIA | 569 | 32.7% | 56.3% |
| Sparta Elementary School BELTON | 549 | 29.5% | 51.0% |
| G W Robinson SEABROOK | 536 | 32.8% | 57.0% |
| Legacy Elementary School GODLEY | 502 | 30.9% | 46.4% |
| Ed H White Elementary School EL LAGO | 644 | 31.4% | 55.3% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Woodway Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In McLennan County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #328 of 4,401 | #3 of 41 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #360 of 4,466 ▼ 25 | #3 of 41 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #175 of 4,466 ▲ 215 | #3 of 41 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +27.5pp | #212 of 3,998 | #4 of 40 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 547 | #2,068 of 4,938 | #11 of 49 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #2,618 of 4,622 | #27 of 45 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.1% | #1,925 of 4,628 | #23 of 45 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.4% | #4,182 of 4,789 | #45 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.9% | #2,404 of 2,838 | #21 of 28 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
547
+14 (+3%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 532
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 14.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 547 | 36.1 | 15.2:1 | 31% (172) |
| 2023-24 | 559 | 35.8 | 15.6:1 | 28% (155) |
| 2022-23 | 567 | 35.7 | 15.9:1 | 28% (160) |
| 2020-21 | 533 | 36 | 14.8:1 | 36% (193) |
| 2017-18 | 581 | 33.1 | 17.6:1 | 35% (206) |
| 2015-16 | 564 | 31 | 18.2:1 | 35% (195) |
| 2010-11 | 649 | 38 | 17.1:1 | 29% (186) |
| 2000-01 | 416 | 26 | 16.0:1 | 19% (79) |
| 1990-91 | 532 | 42 | 12.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodway Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (581 to 547); teachers up 9% (33.1 to 36.1).
About Woodway Elementary School
Woodway Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary school in WACO, Texas. Its enrollment is 547 students, spread over pre-K through 5.
MIDWAY ISD is responsible for 12 schools, Woodway Elementary School included, with 8,824 students in all.
More than half of the students at Woodway Elementary School are White (63%). The remaining shares are 20% Hispanic, 9% Black, and 7% multiracial. The diversity index for Woodway Elementary School is 55%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 36.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.2:1. The 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas is close to this figure. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 31%. The 62% average for public schools in McLennan County is 31 points higher.
A school with Woodway Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Texas is predicted to score 60.3%. Woodway Elementary School scores 69.3%, 9.1 points above that line.
For the population of McLennan County, the median household earns about $66,643 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 29% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Across McLennan County, 124 public schools serve about 45,703 students.
Chapel Park Elementary School is the nearest public school to Woodway Elementary School, about 1.4 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Woodway Elementary School comes in 3rd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Mid-size: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal enrollment counts rose from 533 (2020-21) to 547 (2024-25).
On allk12, people connected to Woodway Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
McLennan County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
266,067
Census ACS
Median income
$66,643
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
124
45,703 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIDWAY ISD
- Midway High SchoolHigh · 2,687 students
- Midway Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,112 students
- River Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 902 students
- Park Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 680 students
- South Bosque Elementary SchoolElementary · 578 students
- Castleman Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 570 students
Other schools in WACO
- Midway High SchoolHigh · 2,687 students
- Waco High SchoolHigh · 1,885 students
- University High SchoolHigh · 1,752 students
- Tennyson Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
- La Vega High SchoolHigh · 881 students
- Bell's Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 786 students
Other Woodway Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Woodway Elementary. Woodway Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Woodway Elementary SchoolFORT WORTH, TX · 520 students
Nearby schools
- Chapel Park Elementary School1.4 mi · 532
- South Bosque Elementary School1.7 mi · 578
- Midway Middle School1.8 mi · 1,112
- Midway High School1.8 mi · 2,687
- Hewitt Elementary School2.1 mi · 511
- Parkdale Elementary School2.3 mi · 497
Frequently asked questions
About Woodway Elementary SchoolHow large is Woodway Elementary School?
Woodway Elementary School enrolls approximately 547 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Woodway Elementary School serve?
Woodway Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Woodway Elementary School?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at Woodway Elementary School.
How diverse is Woodway Elementary School?
Woodway Elementary School reports a student body of 63% White, 20% Hispanic, 9% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Woodway Elementary School?
Woodway Elementary School is overseen by MIDWAY ISD in McLennan County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.