Meridith-Dunbar Early Childhood Academy

5 years of ratings

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.

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 Meridith-Dunbar Early Childhood Academy 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 Achievement—Not reported · similar 70.2 · region 77.1
• School Progress—Not reported · similar 78.7 · region 78.6
• Closing the Gaps—Not reported · similar 74.9 · region 75.4
• Academic Growth—Not reported · similar 73.1 · region 72.2
• Relative Performance—Not reported · similar 76.7 · region 76.1

• Meridith-Dunbar Early Childhood Academy
• Similar student population (1,995)
• Region 12: Waco (301)

Who this school serves

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

Students

452

Economically disadvantaged

93.4%+1.9 pts vs similar

English learners

20.6%−20.6 pts vs similar

Special education

17.9%+0.3 pts vs similar

Attendance

—

Chronically absent

—

Student demographics

• African American 26.1%
• Hispanic 47.3%
• White 13.5%
• American Indian 0.4%
• Asian 2.2%
• Pacific Islander 0.4%
• Two or More Races 10%

Spending per student

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

• Meridith-Dunbar Early Childhood Academy
• 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

$59,146−$9,212 vs similar

Teachers

25

Students per staff member

18.1

Teaching experience

• Beginning 8%
• 1 to 5 years 32%
• 6 to 10 years 28%
• 11 to 20 years 24%
• 21 to 30 years 8%

Where this school ranks best

Out of 12 rankings computed across every published metric and every comparison group, these are the placements that stand out. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

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  Per-student spending

  Bell County · of the 100 that report this measure · tied with 13

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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 014909101.