Summary:
In zip code 76305, there is one elementary school, Burgess Elementary, which serves grades PK through 5 in Wichita Falls, Texas, and is part of the Wichita Falls Independent School District (ISD).
Burgess Elementary is a high-poverty school, with 87.54% of its 345 students receiving free or reduced lunch. Despite a favorable student-teacher ratio of 12.7, the school has consistently ranked in the bottom 10% of Texas elementary schools for three consecutive years, placing in the 5th percentile for the 2025-2026 school year. Academic performance is significantly below both district and state averages across all subjects. For example, in 3rd Grade Reading, only 16.67% of students were proficient, compared to 44.14% in the district and 51.08% statewide. The school's overall proficiency rate for the 2025-2026 school year was just 25.6%, far below the estimated district average of 44.9% and state average of 50.6%.
The most critical areas of weakness are 4th Grade Reading (15.79% proficient) and 5th Grade Science (14.89% proficient in 2024-2025), while 4th Grade Math showed slightly better performance at 38.6% proficient. The school's state ranking did improve from the 9th percentile to the 5th percentile over the past three years, but this remains a critically low position. The data suggests that the challenges of high poverty may be outweighing the benefits of smaller class sizes, and that intensive interventions are needed, particularly in early literacy and science, to address the persistent achievement gap.
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