Summary:
The Rapoport Academy Public School district contains a single elementary school, Audre And Bernard Rapoport Academy, which serves grades PK through 4 in the urban community of Waco, Texas, with an enrollment of 396 students.
This school is in a state of academic emergency, consistently ranking in the bottom 5% of Texas elementary schools for three consecutive years and earning zero stars in each of those years. While the school has a favorable student-teacher ratio of 12.3:1 and per-student spending of $11,877, its academic outcomes are critically low. For the 2025-2026 school year, only 7.46% of 3rd graders were proficient in Reading compared to the state average of 51.08%, and just 14.93% were proficient in Math versus the state's 44.33%. The school serves a high-needs population, with 78.28% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which underscores the profound challenges it faces.
Despite the overall crisis, there is a notable "4th Grade Bounce" where 4th graders significantly outperformed 3rd graders in both subjects. In 2025-2026, 34.33% of 4th graders were proficient in Reading and 37.31% in Math, compared to the 3rd grade rates. This suggests the school's instruction may be more effective in later primary grades, or that the current 3rd grade cohort is particularly at-risk. However, the extreme achievement gap—where the school's proficiency rates are often a fraction of the state average—indicates a systemic failure in delivering effective instruction. The positive trend in 4th-grade scores offers a small point of hope, but the catastrophic performance in 3rd-grade reading demands immediate and intensive intervention.
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