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Celestino Mauricio Soto Jr Elem

Dallas County · Region 10: Richardson · 417 students

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Current score
86/1002025-26
Change
+1 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
+8.4 ptsvs 77.6 average · 2,353 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
517 of 2,353tied with 87 others
B86

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving up; under the rules in force back then it scored 81 in 2021-22. The current score is above the 77.6 average for 2,353 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

STAAR result

All Subjects above similar-context averages at Meets and Masters

Meets
51%vs 40.6% avg · +10.4 pts
Masters
28%vs 16% avg · +12 pts

Among 2,192 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.

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STAAR result

Math above similar-context averages at Meets and Masters

Meets
53%vs 38.6% avg · +14.4 pts
Masters
26%vs 14.8% avg · +11.2 pts

Among 2,183 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.

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STAAR result

Reading above similar-context averages at Meets and Masters

Meets
57%vs 44.3% avg · +12.7 pts
Masters
33%vs 17.6% avg · +15.4 pts

Among 2,191 schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate reporting this measure.

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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

Celestino Mauricio Soto Jr Elem is rated B by TEA, scoring 86 out of 100 for 2025-26 — above the 77.6 average for 2,353 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is up 1 point since 2021-22.

Ranks 517th of 2,353 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 87 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 averageCelestino Mauricio Soto Jr Elem 8569909186 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 B with 81 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
2025-26B8677.6 2,353 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25A9177.2 2,342 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24A9073.9 2,324 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23D6973.7 2,314 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22B8581.8 2,287 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+6.5 vs similar economic context · 2,192 reporting
  • School Progress86 B+7.3 vs similar economic context · 2,187 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps86 B+11.1 vs similar economic context · 2,173 reporting
  • Academic Growth85 B+12.1 vs similar economic context · 2,152 reporting
  • Relative Performance86 B+9.2 vs similar economic context · 2,186 reporting
  • Celestino Mauricio Soto Jr Elem
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,353 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement77C3
School Progress86B4
Closing the Gaps86B4
Academic Growth85B5
Relative Performance86B4

Closest to moving up: School Progress, 4 points below A 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 (86), so Student Achievement (77) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 86.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level72%+5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,192 reporting
  • Meets grade level51%+10 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,192 reporting
  • Masters grade level28%+12 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,192 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level77%+8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,191 reporting
  • Meets grade level57%+13 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,191 reporting
  • Masters grade level33%+15 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,191 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level73%+7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,183 reporting
  • Meets grade level53%+14 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,183 reporting
  • Masters grade level26%+11 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,183 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level56%−7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,055 reporting
  • Meets grade level26%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,055 reporting
  • Masters grade level18%+4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,055 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,353 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
417
Economically disadvantaged
89.7%+0.1 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
57.6%+18.5 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
12.0%−5.9 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
94.7%+1.7 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
15.9%−6.9 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Celestino Mauricio Soto Jr Elem

African American: 1.9%Hispanic: 94.5%White: 2.6%Asian: 0.2%Two or More Races: 0.7%
  • African American 1.9%
  • Hispanic 94.5%
  • White 2.6%
  • Asian 0.2%
  • Two or More Races 0.7%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,353 reporting for every category shown · 2,353 in full cohort

African American: 14.6%Hispanic: 75.5%White: 6.5%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 1.3%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 1.7%
  • African American 14.6%
  • Hispanic 75.5%
  • White 6.5%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 1.3%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 1.7%

Student counts behind the percentages

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

Students in this TEA accountability summary
417
Economically disadvantaged students
374
Emergent bilingual students
240
Special education students
50

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
51
Students in TEA mobility denominator
370
TEA-published mobility rate
13.8%

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 417 students in 2025–26, a decrease of 27 (6.1%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
417

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
−27

Decrease · −6.1%

Change since 2021–22
−59

Decrease · −12.4%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
417
Selected comparison
582.7

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,329 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Celestino Mauricio Soto Jr Elem
School yearStudents enrolledCelestino Mauricio Soto Jr ElemChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 476 First available year 624.6
2022–23 471 Decrease of 5 (1.1%) 620.6
2023–24 434 Decrease of 37 (7.9%) 611.5
2024–25 444 Increase of 10 (2.3%) 605.5
2025–26 417 Decrease of 27 (6.1%) 582.7

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
467

2024–25

TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Celestino Mauricio Soto Jr Elem
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 494 Not reported — Not reported — — —
2021–22 525 Not reported — Not reported — — —
2022–23 489 Not reported — Not reported — — —
2023–24 463 Not reported — Not reported — — —
2024–25 467 Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Celestino Mauricio Soto Jr Elem in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
In-school suspensions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Out-of-school suspensions Not reported — Not reported — — —
DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
Mandatory DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
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$16k$24k20182020202220242025
  • Celestino Mauricio Soto Jr Elem
  • Parent district: Dallas ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$10,933
Selected comparison
$13,022

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,340 rated schools reporting

−$2,089 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $10,933 per student for this campus, $23,271 per student for its parent district, Dallas 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
YearCelestino Mauricio Soto Jr ElemParent district: Dallas ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$7,627$13,363$13,054$8,288 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,226 rated schools reporting
2019$8,427$13,990$13,108$8,315 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,256 rated schools reporting
2020$8,569$14,981$14,058$8,827 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,264 rated schools reporting
2021$9,754$17,075$14,797$9,620 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,268 rated schools reporting
2022$8,964$18,716$15,708$11,128 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,287 rated schools reporting
2023$10,778$20,932$16,792$11,675 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,313 rated schools reporting
2024$12,668$22,990$18,125$12,511 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,326 rated schools reporting
2025$10,933$23,271$18,972$13,022 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,340 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
$71,748+$3,621 vs similar economic context
Teachers
25−15.7 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
16.7+2.2 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Celestino Mauricio Soto Jr Elem

Beginning: 16%1 to 5 years: 36%6 to 10 years: 16%11 to 20 years: 24%21 to 30 years: 8%
  • Beginning 16%
  • 1 to 5 years 36%
  • 6 to 10 years 16%
  • 11 to 20 years 24%
  • 21 to 30 years 8%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,353 reporting for every category shown · 2,353 in full cohort

Beginning: 7.5%1 to 5 years: 27.3%6 to 10 years: 18.9%11 to 20 years: 27.1%21 to 30 years: 15%Over 30 years: 3.5%
  • Beginning 7.5%
  • 1 to 5 years 27.3%
  • 6 to 10 years 18.9%
  • 11 to 20 years 27.1%
  • 21 to 30 years 15%
  • Over 30 years 3.5%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Celestino Mauricio Soto Jr Elem in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classCelestino Mauricio Soto Jr Elem · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Kindergarten19.618.1
Grade 121.118.3
Grade 216.818.3
Grade 315.418.5
Grade 422.518.5
Grade 519.519.4

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.

Other top-5% rankings

High placements in larger reporting groups

1 measure

  • 97of 2,191

    Reading — Masters

    Similar economic-disadvantage rate · of the 2,191 that report this measure · tied with 15

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 057905287.