East Bernard Independent School District (Isd)

The East Bernard Independent School District (Isd) is a small, unified district in Texas serving 996 students across three schools: East Bernard Elementary (PK-4), East Bernard J H (5-8), and East Bernard High School (9-12). The district ranks in the 84th percentile among Texas school districts with a 4-star rating, but a deep dive reveals a tale of two strengths and one critical weakness.

East Bernard High School is the district's academic powerhouse, boasting a 100% graduation rate and a 0% dropout rate. It achieves exceptional End-of-Course exam proficiency rates of 84-85% in Biology, English I, English II, and U.S. History, far outpacing state averages. In contrast, East Bernard J H presents a math anomaly: while it earns a 4-star rating and excels in reading and social studies (8th-grade social studies nearly doubles the state average), 7th-grade math proficiency plummets to just 16.67%. The 8th-grade math score of 72.29% is a misleading outlier, likely because only top-performing students take Algebra I that year. East Bernard Elementary provides a solid foundation with strong 3rd-grade reading (61.97% proficient), but its rank has slipped from the 75th to the 63rd percentile over three years, suggesting relative performance is declining.

The most critical takeaway is a district-wide "math gap" that begins in elementary school and worsens through middle school, culminating in a low Algebra I EOC score of 29.31% at the high school. Despite this, the high school acts as a "value-add machine," producing stellar results in other subjects. Social studies is a hidden strength across all levels, and the high school benefits from a low student-teacher ratio of 10.2 and higher per-student spending ($12,683). For parents, this means the district offers excellent reading, history, and science education, but mathematics requires urgent attention, especially for students entering 7th grade.