Summary:
Blooming Grove Independent School District (Isd) is home to one elementary school, Blooming Grove Elementary, which serves grades PK through 5 with 449 students in a community where 58.57% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Blooming Grove Elementary shows a mixed picture of performance. The school's strongest area is 5th grade reading, where 50% of students are proficient, coming closest to the state average of 58.47%. However, 5th grade math is a major concern, with only 25% proficiency—nearly half the state average—and this represents a sharp decline from 43.59% the previous year. The school's state ranking has dropped from the 31st percentile (2 stars) in 2023-2024 to the 22nd percentile (1 star) in both 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, indicating a recent overall decline. The student-teacher ratio of 20:1 is higher than typical state averages, and per-student spending of $9,885 is below average, which may impact resources.
Key takeaways include a "5th grade cliff" in math, where performance collapsed while 3rd and 4th grades improved significantly. Reading proficiency in 3rd and 4th grades remains alarmingly low (around 30-37%), which is critical since 3rd grade is when students transition from learning to read to reading to learn. The 5th grade science proficiency rate of 20.78% is the lowest in the dataset, signaling a need for stronger foundational science instruction. The combination of high poverty, larger class sizes, and below-average spending creates a challenging environment that likely contributes to the volatile test scores across grade levels and subjects.
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