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Celeste Elem

Hunt County · Region 10: Richardson · 237 students

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Current score
79/1002025-26
Change
+8 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
−1.7 ptsvs 80.7 average · 1,934 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
1,123 of 1,934tied with 70 others
C79

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving up; under the rules in force back then it scored 64 in 2021-22. The current score is below the 80.7 average for 1,934 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

STAAR result

Reading above similar-context averages at Meets and Masters

Meets
63%vs 54.4% avg · +8.6 pts
Masters
29%vs 22% avg · +7 pts

Among 1,849 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.

See the full measure

Selected positive signals, not a summary of performance. The same rules choose them on every page: only the latest one-year gain, results meaningfully better than the currently selected comparison with broad reporting, and distinctive top-three placements. Demographics, staffing and spending cannot become academic “wins.” The overall rating and the full results below remain the complete picture for this school.

Read the full rating context and placement

Celeste Elem is rated C by TEA, scoring 79 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 80.7 average for 1,934 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is up 8 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 1,123rd of 1,934 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 70 others).

Put the numbers in context

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  1. Overview
  2. 5 years of ratings
  3. Where the score comes from
  4. Student outcomes
  5. Who this school serves
  6. Student counts behind the percentages
  7. Enrollment over time
  8. Discipline and removal from class
  9. Spending per student
  10. Teachers and actual class size
  11. Where this school ranks best
  12. Where this comes from

5 years of ratings

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Compare against
90807060 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas averageCeleste Elem 7179787479 2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-26

2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years. Under the original scoring it was rated Not Rated with 64 that year.

Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.

View the yearly scores and comparisons
Rating history with comparisons
YearRatingScoreSelected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rateStateTexas average
2025-26C7980.7 1,934 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25C7480.5 1,910 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24C7878.5 1,889 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23C7979.1 1,855 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22C7182.5 1,830 reporting83.7 7,283 reporting

Where the score comes from

Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.

  • Student Achievement77 C−2.2 vs similar economic context · 1,852 reporting
  • School Progress81 B−0.3 vs similar economic context · 1,845 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps73 C−4.9 vs similar economic context · 1,828 reporting
  • Academic Growth71 C−3.5 vs similar economic context · 1,793 reporting
  • Relative Performance81 B+1.5 vs similar economic context · 1,845 reporting
  • Celeste Elem
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (1,934 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement77C3
School Progress81B9
Closing the Gaps73C7
Academic Growth71C9
Relative Performance81B9

Closest to moving up: Closing the Gaps, 7 points below B in that domain — the nearest of the measures that count toward the overall rating.

TEA does not add the domains up. The overall score is the better of Student Achievement and School Progress at 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. For this school that better measure is School Progress (81), so Student Achievement (77) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 81.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level79%+4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,852 reporting
  • Meets grade level49%−1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,852 reporting
  • Masters grade level21%+1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,852 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level88%+11 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,849 reporting
  • Meets grade level63%+9 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,849 reporting
  • Masters grade level29%+7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,849 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level76%+4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,841 reporting
  • Meets grade level44%+0 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,841 reporting
  • Masters grade level18%+1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,841 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level65%−11 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,696 reporting
  • Meets grade level27%−21 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,696 reporting
  • Masters grade level5%−17 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,696 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (1,934 in cohort)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only schools for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.

Who this school serves

Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.

Students
237
Economically disadvantaged
60.1%−0.4 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
6.9%−9.0 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
21.5%+2.6 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
95.0%+0.8 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
8.6%−7.4 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Celeste Elem

African American: 0.9%Hispanic: 26.6%White: 68.2%American Indian: 0.4%Two or More Races: 3.9%
  • African American 0.9%
  • Hispanic 26.6%
  • White 68.2%
  • American Indian 0.4%
  • Two or More Races 3.9%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,934 reporting for every category shown · 1,934 in full cohort

African American: 10.4%Hispanic: 48.1%White: 34.8%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 2.3%Pacific Islander: 0.2%Two or More Races: 3.9%
  • African American 10.4%
  • Hispanic 48.1%
  • White 34.8%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 2.3%
  • Pacific Islander 0.2%
  • Two or More Races 3.9%

Student counts behind the percentages

Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.

Students in this TEA accountability summary
233
Economically disadvantaged students
140
Emergent bilingual students
16
Special education students
50

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
13
Students in TEA mobility denominator
186
TEA-published mobility rate
7%

The mobility count and rate use TEA’s separate 2024–25 campus denominator shown above, not current enrollment. This site does not recalculate a missing rate.

The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.

Enrollment over time

TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.

TEA reported 237 students in 2025–26, a decrease of 7 (2.9%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
237

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
−7

Decrease · −2.9%

Change since 2021–22
+1

Increase · +0.4%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
237
Selected comparison
635.3

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,900 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Celeste Elem
School yearStudents enrolledCeleste ElemChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 236 First available year 642.8
2022–23 254 Increase of 18 (7.6%) 647.5
2023–24 262 Increase of 8 (3.1%) 646.1
2024–25 244 Decrease of 18 (6.9%) 643.4
2025–26 237 Decrease of 7 (2.9%) 635.3

The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting schools in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this school's own counts do not.

Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.

These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.

Discipline and removal from class

TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.

Students in TEA’s all-discipline count
Suppressed

Rate not available

Disciplinary actions
Suppressed

Rate not available

Cumulative year-end enrollment
251

2024–25

TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Celeste Elem
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 246 Suppressed — 14 5.69 — 18.8
2021–22 258 Suppressed — 16 6.20 — 28.6
2022–23 269 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
2023–24 274 Not reported — Not reported — — —
2024–25 251 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Celeste Elem in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
In-school suspensions Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
Out-of-school suspensions Not reported — Not reported — — —
DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —

Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized schools can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this school's own counts and rates remain fixed.

Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.

Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.

Spending per student

The campus and its parent district stay fixed while the selected same-sector txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference remain visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.

$7k$13k$20k20182020202220242025
  • Celeste Elem
  • Parent district: Celeste ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$10,143
Selected comparison
$12,458

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,906 rated schools reporting

−$2,315 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $10,143 per student for this campus, $18,148 per student for its parent district, Celeste ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.

Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.

View yearly spending figures
Spending per student by year
YearCeleste ElemParent district: Celeste ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$7,538$12,861$13,054$7,922 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,763 rated schools reporting
2019$7,614$12,925$13,108$8,067 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,782 rated schools reporting
2020$8,731$14,025$14,058$8,678 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,800 rated schools reporting
2021$7,887$14,669$14,797$9,098 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,813 rated schools reporting
2022$8,974$16,475$15,708$10,439 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,831 rated schools reporting
2023$8,797$17,001$16,792$11,106 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,855 rated schools reporting
2024$8,967$16,299$18,125$11,931 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,885 rated schools reporting
2025$10,143$18,148$18,972$12,458 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,906 rated schools reporting

The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.

Teachers and actual class size

Average salary
$63,146−$3,313 vs similar economic context
Teachers
19−22.9 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
12.2−7.0 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Celeste Elem

1 to 5 years: 20.4%6 to 10 years: 9.9%11 to 20 years: 25.7%21 to 30 years: 38.7%Over 30 years: 5.2%
  • 1 to 5 years 20.4%
  • 6 to 10 years 9.9%
  • 11 to 20 years 25.7%
  • 21 to 30 years 38.7%
  • Over 30 years 5.2%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,934 reporting for every category shown · 1,934 in full cohort

Beginning: 6%1 to 5 years: 25.4%6 to 10 years: 19.2%11 to 20 years: 28.3%21 to 30 years: 16.3%Over 30 years: 4.2%
  • Beginning 6%
  • 1 to 5 years 25.4%
  • 6 to 10 years 19.2%
  • 11 to 20 years 28.3%
  • 21 to 30 years 16.3%
  • Over 30 years 4.2%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Celeste Elem in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classCeleste Elem · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Kindergarten2417.9
Grade 120.518.2
Grade 219.918.4
Grade 319.318.6
Grade 422.118.9
Grade 51619.7

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 6 of 12 categories for this campus; the categories are not combined into a made-up campus-wide average. Each selected comparison average uses only schools reporting that same grade or subject.

Source: TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports, fetched 24 August 2026.

Where this school ranks best

Out of 105 rankings computed across every published metric and every available comparison group, these are all the measures that meet this site’s distinctive-placement threshold. The list does not change when you change Compare against. Each measure appears once, using its strongest placement. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

#1 rankings

First-place results

1 measure

  • 1of 36

    Reading — Approaches

    Hunt County · of the 36 that report this measure · tied with 1

#4–10 rankings

Fourth- through tenth-place results

3 measures

  • 7of 37

    Chronically absent (lowest is best)

    Hunt County · of the 37 that report this measure

  • 7of 36

    Reading — Meets

    Hunt County · of the 36 that report this measure · tied with 2

  • 7of 36

    Reading — Masters

    Hunt County · of the 36 that report this measure · tied with 1

These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this school ranks poorly. Each measure appears once here, using its strongest qualifying placement across all available comparison groups. Very large ties are left out because they do not distinguish this school; any tie that does appear is labeled. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

Where this comes from

The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.

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Single-file records are pre-built for district-level records only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here. Producing both formats for every entity would consume most of the 20,000-asset deployment limit before pages and shared data are counted. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 116902101.