Summary:
Happy Independent School District (ISD) in Texas has only one elementary school, Happy Elementary, which serves students from pre-kindergarten through 6th grade. The school has seen fluctuating performance in recent years, with its statewide ranking dropping from 1,732 out of 4,581 Texas elementary schools in 2021-2022 to 2,200 out of 4,647 in 2022-2023, before improving to 910 out of 4,675 in 2023-2024. Its overall rating by SchoolDigger has also varied, going from 3 stars out of 5 in 2021-2022 and 2022-2023, to 4 stars out of 5 in 2023-2024.
Academically, Happy Elementary has performed well in reading and mathematics, with STAAR test scores generally higher than the state averages, except for 4th-grade mathematics. The school's 6th-grade reading proficiency rate of 73.68% was significantly higher than the state average of 54.45%. However, the school's 5th-grade science proficiency rate of 30.43% was lower than the state average of 26.29%, suggesting a potential area for improvement.
Demographically, Happy Elementary has a predominantly white student population, with 89.21% of students identifying as white, and a relatively low percentage of economically disadvantaged students at 37.41%. The school's per-student spending for the 2020-2021 school year was $10,969, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.9 for the 2022-2023 school year, indicating the resources available to the school and the level of individual attention students receive.
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