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Purcell STEM Academy
Taylor County · Region 14: Abilene · 691 students
Purcell STEM Academy is rated D by TEA, scoring 67 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 77.8 average of the 2,168 schools serving a similar share of economically disadvantaged students, and below the statewide average of 81.3. It is down 2 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 75.
Ranks 6,919th of 7,646 Texas schools (tied with 93 others), and 110th of 122 in Region 14: Abilene (tied with 2 others).
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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 C with 75 that year.
| Year | Rating | Score | Similar | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | D | 67 | 77.8 | 81.3 |
| 2024-25 | C | 77 | 77.4 | 81.2 |
| 2023-24 | F | 58 | 75.0 | 78.9 |
| 2022-23 | D | 63 | 75.4 | 79.1 |
| 2021-22 | D | 69 | 81.6 | 83.7 |
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 Purcell STEM 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.
- Purcell STEM Academy
- Similar student population (2,168)
- Region 14: Abilene (122)
| Domain | Score | Grade | Points to next grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Achievement | 65 | D | 5 |
| School Progress | 69 | D | 1 |
| Closing the Gaps | 63 | D | 7 |
| Academic Growth | 60 | D | 10 |
| Relative Performance | 69 | D | 1 |
Closest to moving up: School Progress, 1 point below C 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 (69), so Student Achievement (65) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 69.
Student outcomes
STAAR performance
- Approaches grade level
- Meets grade level
- Masters grade level
- Tick: Similar student population (2,168)
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 (2,168 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
- 691
- Economically disadvantaged
- 79.6%−0.4 pts vs similar
- English learners
- 7.8%−20.7 pts vs similar
- Special education
- 27.2%+8.5 pts vs similar
- Attendance
- 94.8%+1.4 pts vs similar
- Chronically absent
- 12.3%−8.2 pts vs similar
Student demographics
- African American 16.2%
- Hispanic 57%
- White 19.5%
- American Indian 0.3%
- Asian 1%
- Two or More Races 5.9%
Spending per student
Compared against TEA's own peer group, which controls for size and student population, and against the state.
- Purcell STEM 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
- $58,462−$8,533 vs similar
- Teachers
- 35
- Students per staff member
- 19.7
Teaching experience
- Beginning 5.7%
- 1 to 5 years 28.8%
- 6 to 10 years 25.4%
- 11 to 20 years 33.9%
- 21 to 30 years 6.3%
- Over 30 years 0.3%
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.
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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 221901113.