Summary:
In zip code 76878, there is one elementary school, Santa Anna Elementary, which serves grades PK through 6 in the rural community of Santa Anna, Texas, with a total enrollment of 146 students.
Santa Anna Elementary has experienced a significant and concerning decline in academic performance over the past three years. The school’s state ranking dropped from the 38th percentile (2-star rating) in the 2023-2024 school year to the 6th percentile (0-star rating) in the 2025-2026 school year, a fall of 1,429 places. Overall proficiency for the 2025-2026 school year stands at just 19.4%, compared to the state average of 49.5%. Mathematics is a particular area of weakness, with an average math proficiency of only 11.1% in the most recent year, and 4th-grade math recorded a 0% proficiency rate. While the school benefits from a low student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1 and spends $11,503 per student, these resources have not translated into academic success, likely due to challenges associated with a high poverty rate (75.34% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch).
Despite the overall negative trend, there is a bright spot in 5th-grade Reading, where 57.14% of students were proficient in the 2025-2026 school year, nearly matching the state average of 58.47%. This suggests that a specific instructional approach in that grade may be effective and could serve as a model for improvement. The school is part of the Santa Anna Independent School District (Isd), and the data indicates that while the school faces significant academic hurdles, targeted interventions in areas like mathematics and leveraging successful practices from higher-performing grades could help reverse the recent decline.
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