Summary:
The Chapel Hill Independent School District (Isd) in Mount Pleasant, TX, is home to a single elementary school, Chapel Hill Elementary, which serves grades PK through 5 with 440 students. This school shows a clear pattern of strong early-grade performance that fades by upper elementary, making it a school with notable strengths and critical areas for improvement.
Chapel Hill Elementary is a standout for its 3rd Grade Reading scores, where 71.23% of students were proficient in 2025-2026—a remarkable 20 percentage points above the state average. However, this success does not carry through to later grades. By 5th grade, proficiency in Reading drops to 54.17%, and Math falls to 44.44%, both below state averages. The most alarming weakness is 5th Grade Science, where only 15.19% of students were proficient in 2024-2025, roughly half the state rate. Despite these challenges, the school's overall state ranking jumped dramatically from the 44th percentile (2 stars) to the 65th percentile (3 stars) between 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, driven largely by improvements in younger grades.
Key metrics include a favorable student-teacher ratio of 14.1:1 and per-student spending of $10,701, suggesting resources are not the primary issue. Nearly half of students (49.77%) are economically disadvantaged. The district itself ranks in the top 22% of Texas districts (78th percentile), indicating that the elementary school is a relative weak point compared to the district's middle or high schools. For parents, this school offers strong early literacy instruction but struggles to maintain that momentum in upper elementary, particularly in science and math. The school's recent improvement trend is encouraging, but the 5th grade science gap remains a significant concern that warrants attention.
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