YANTIS 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 45 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 35 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About YANTIS EL
As a minimally staffed elementary school in YANTIS, Texas, YANTIS EL educates 155 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by YANTIS ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so YANTIS EL sits 70% leaner than that benchmark.
Within YANTIS ISD, which oversees 2 schools and 305 students, YANTIS EL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, YANTIS EL logs that 66% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 30% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting YANTIS EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 72% of students at YANTIS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Wood County's rate of about 58%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, YANTIS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.8%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wood County indicate median household earnings sit near $60,300, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wood County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,349 students), YANTIS EL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is YANTIS SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), YANTIS EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 24%: 205 students in 2018 compared to 155 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.
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