Summary:
The Menard Independent School District (Isd) is served by a single elementary campus, Menard Elementary/Jh, which educates 182 students from Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade in a rural Texas setting. As the only school in the district, it provides a close-knit learning environment with a low student-teacher ratio of 14.4:1 and high per-student spending of $16,558, though academic performance is mixed and varies significantly by subject and grade level.
The school shows a clear strength in Reading, with 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th graders all outperforming the state average in the most recent 2025-2026 data. For example, 70% of 4th graders were proficient in Reading, well above the state's 53.04%. However, Mathematics is a consistent weakness, with every grade level (3rd through 8th) scoring below the state average in 2025-2026. The most significant gaps were in 3rd grade (21.43% vs. 44.33% state) and 6th grade (26.67% vs. 38.57% state). Additionally, 8th-grade Social Studies is a major concern, with only 19.05% proficient compared to the state's 31.69%.
Performance at Menard Elementary/Jh is highly volatile from year to year, likely due to small class sizes. For instance, 3rd-grade Reading proficiency swung from 70% in 2024-2025 down to 28.57% in 2025-2026, while 4th-grade Math plummeted from 50% to 10.53% in the same period. The district ranks 363rd out of 951 in Texas (62nd percentile, 3 stars), and 61.54% of students are economically disadvantaged. Despite high spending and low student-teacher ratios, the school struggles to achieve consistent, above-average results across all subjects, with a notable gap between its Reading strengths and Math weaknesses.
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