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Cross Plains Elem

Callahan County · Region 14: Abilene · 187 students

B84

Cross Plains Elem is rated B by TEA, scoring 84 out of 100 for 2025-26 — above the 79.1 average of the 2,020 schools serving a similar share of economically disadvantaged students, and above the statewide average of 81.3. It is down 7 points since 2021-22 — both years scored under TEA's current rules, since TEA rewrote them in 2023; under the rules in force back then it scored 94.

Ranks 3,325th of 7,646 Texas schools (tied with 275 others), and 46th of 122 in Region 14: Abilene (tied with 5 others).

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  1. Overview
  2. 5 years of ratings
  3. How this school's change over time is ranked
  4. Where the score comes from
  5. Student outcomes
  6. Who this school serves
  7. Spending per student
  8. Teachers
  9. Where this school ranks best
  10. Where this comes from

5 years of ratings

Compare against
908070 Schools like this oneTexas averageCross Plains Elem 9191858684 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 A with 94 that year.

Rating history with comparisons
YearRatingScoreSimilarState
2025-26B8479.181.3
2024-25B8678.881.2
2023-24B8576.778.9
2022-23A9177.279.1
2021-22A9181.983.7

How this school's change over time is ranked

TEA publishes most measures for one year only, so a change ranking exists just where the same figure is published across years — the overall score, the five score domains, and per-student spending. This page does not yet state where Cross Plains Elem itself places on these lists, only that the lists exist; open one to find this school's own row.

Texas schools

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 Achievement82 B+6.1 vs similar · +2.3 vs region
  • School Progress87 B+6.8 vs similar · +7.2 vs region
  • Closing the Gaps76 C−0.3 vs similar · −1.3 vs region
  • Academic Growth78 C+4.8 vs similar · +5.6 vs region
  • Relative Performance87 B+8.4 vs similar · +9.6 vs region
  • Cross Plains Elem
  • Similar student population (2,020)
  • Region 14: Abilene (122)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement82B8
School Progress87B3
Closing the Gaps76C4
Academic Growth78C2
Relative Performance87B3

Closest to moving up: School Progress, 3 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 (87), so Student Achievement (82) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 87.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level85%+13 vs Similar student population
  • Meets grade level55%+9 vs Similar student population
  • Masters grade level22%+4 vs Similar student population

Reading

  • Approaches grade level86%+12 vs Similar student population
  • Meets grade level57%+6 vs Similar student population
  • Masters grade level24%+4 vs Similar student population

Math

  • Approaches grade level81%+12 vs Similar student population
  • Meets grade level50%+10 vs Similar student population
  • Masters grade level17%+2 vs Similar student population

Science

  • Approaches grade level96%+25 vs Similar student population
  • Meets grade level64%+22 vs Similar student population
  • Masters grade level29%+11 vs Similar student population
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar student population (2,020)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The tick on each bar marks the average for Similar student population (2,020 schools) — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Who this school serves

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

Students
187
Economically disadvantaged
70.6%+0.1 pts vs similar
English learners
0.5%−20.3 pts vs similar
Special education
17.1%−1.7 pts vs similar
Attendance
95.5%+1.6 pts vs similar
Chronically absent
10.3%−7.5 pts vs similar

Student demographics

Hispanic: 16%White: 82.4%Two or More Races: 1.6%
  • Hispanic 16%
  • White 82.4%
  • Two or More Races 1.6%

Spending per student

Compared against TEA's own peer group, which controls for size and student population, and against the state.

$12k$17k$22k20182020202220242025
  • Cross Plains Elem
  • TEA peer group
  • Texas average

TEA's published file does not include peer-group spending for this entity, so no comparison is shown.

Not reported by TEA for this entity: peer.

Teachers

Average salary
$57,506−$8,952 vs similar
Teachers
20
Students per staff member
9.5

Teaching experience

Beginning: 5.1%1 to 5 years: 15.2%6 to 10 years: 7.1%11 to 20 years: 50.5%21 to 30 years: 16.7%Over 30 years: 5.1%
  • Beginning 5.1%
  • 1 to 5 years 15.2%
  • 6 to 10 years 7.1%
  • 11 to 20 years 50.5%
  • 21 to 30 years 16.7%
  • Over 30 years 5.1%

Where this school ranks best

Out of 88 rankings computed across every published metric and every comparison group, these are the placements that stand out. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

  • 2of 10

    Reading — Approaches

    Callahan County · of the 10 that report this measure

  • 2of 10

    Reading — Masters

    Callahan County · of the 10 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 2of 10

    Science — Approaches

    Callahan County · of the 10 that report this measure

  • 3of 10

    All Subjects — Approaches

    Callahan County · of the 10 that report this measure

  • 4of 10

    School Progress

    Callahan County · of the 10 that report this measure

  • 4of 10

    Academic Growth

    Callahan County · of the 10 that report this measure · tied with 2

  • 4of 10

    Relative Performance

    Callahan County · of the 10 that report this measure

  • 4of 10

    Reading — Meets

    Callahan County · of the 10 that report this measure

  • 5of 11

    Overall score

    Callahan County · of the 11 that report this measure

  • 5of 11

    Attendance

    Callahan County · of the 11 that report this measure

  • 5of 11

    Chronically absent (lowest is best)

    Callahan County · of the 11 that report this measure

  • 5of 11

    Average teacher salary

    Callahan County · of the 11 that report this measure

These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this campus ranks poorly. Each statement below states its cohort and its denominator so it can be checked — a rank without an n is a boast, not a fact. Ties are shown because a shared ceiling is not a sole first place. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page comes from data the Texas Education Agency publishes at txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026 and archived with a checksum so each number stays traceable to the bytes TEA served.

Download the full dataset · this campus's district

Single-file records are pre-built for districts only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here — 9,086 entities in two formats is 18,172 assets, on top of everything else this site publishes, and that is past the 20,000-asset limit this site is published under. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 030901101.