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Salado MS

Bell County · Region 12: Waco · 593 students

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Current score
78/1002025-26
Change
+2 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
−10.7 ptsvs 88.7 average · 875 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
812 of 875tied with 13 others
C78

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving up; under the rules in force back then it scored 78 in 2021-22. The current score is below the 88.7 average for 875 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

No academic result met this site’s published threshold for a selected positive signal against Similar economic-disadvantage rate.

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

Salado MS is rated C by TEA, scoring 78 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 88.7 average for 875 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is up 2 points since 2021-22.

Ranks 812th of 875 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 13 others).

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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
908070 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas averageSalado MS 7681778678 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 C with 78 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
2025-26C7888.7 875 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25B8688.7 867 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24C7787.4 855 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23B8187.7 839 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22C7688.8 822 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 Achievement85 B−4.5 vs similar economic context · 859 reporting
  • School Progress76 C−9.2 vs similar economic context · 857 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps63 D−23.2 vs similar economic context · 853 reporting
  • Academic Growth76 C−6.1 vs similar economic context · 846 reporting
  • Relative Performance63 D−17.0 vs similar economic context · 857 reporting
  • Salado MS
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (875 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement85B5
School Progress76C4
Closing the Gaps63D7
Academic Growth76C4
Relative Performance63D7

Closest to moving up: Student Achievement, 5 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 Student Achievement (85), so School Progress (76) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 85.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level79%−7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 859 reporting
  • Meets grade level56%−12 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 859 reporting
  • Masters grade level27%−9 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 859 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level84%−4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 859 reporting
  • Meets grade level63%−9 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 859 reporting
  • Masters grade level33%−5 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 859 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level77%−8 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 857 reporting
  • Meets grade level51%−12 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 857 reporting
  • Masters grade level19%−12 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 857 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level84%−3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 789 reporting
  • Meets grade level68%+3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 789 reporting
  • Masters grade level39%+1 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 789 reporting
Social Studies3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level67%−19 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 409 reporting
  • Meets grade level39%−26 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 409 reporting
  • Masters grade level21%−17 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 409 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (875 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
593
Economically disadvantaged
24.7%−0.9 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
5.2%−4.7 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
16.6%−0.4 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
95.4%−0.1 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
8.8%−0.6 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Salado MS

African American: 1.4%Hispanic: 25.8%White: 65.2%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 0.5%Pacific Islander: 0.7%Two or More Races: 6.1%
  • African American 1.4%
  • Hispanic 25.8%
  • White 65.2%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 0.5%
  • Pacific Islander 0.7%
  • Two or More Races 6.1%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 875 reporting for every category shown · 875 in full cohort

African American: 8.4%Hispanic: 27.2%White: 48.6%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 10.2%Pacific Islander: 0.1%Two or More Races: 5.1%
  • African American 8.4%
  • Hispanic 27.2%
  • White 48.6%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 10.2%
  • Pacific Islander 0.1%
  • Two or More Races 5.1%

Student counts behind the percentages

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

Students in this TEA accountability summary
592
Economically disadvantaged students
146
Emergent bilingual students
31
Special education students
98

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
64
Students in TEA mobility denominator
630
TEA-published mobility rate
10.2%

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 593 students in 2025–26, an increase of 6 (1.0%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
593

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
+6

Increase · +1.0%

Change since 2022–23
+2

Increase · +0.3%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
593
Selected comparison
844.2

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 871 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Salado MS
School yearStudents enrolledSalado MSChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 Not reported Not available —
2022–23 591 No adjacent prior year 862.7
2023–24 590 Decrease of 1 (0.2%) 857.5
2024–25 587 Decrease of 3 (0.5%) 854
2025–26 593 Increase of 6 (1.0%) 844.2

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
21

3.3% of cumulative year-end enrollment

Disciplinary actions
43

6.83 per 100 students

Cumulative year-end enrollment
630

2024–25

Share of students · 2024–25

This school
3.3%
Selected comparison
7.7%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 638 rated schools reporting

−4.4 pts vs similar economic context

Actions per 100 students · 2024–25

This school
6.83
Selected comparison
15.3

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 723 rated schools reporting

−8.5 vs similar economic context
TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Salado MS
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 529 37 7.0% 65 12.29 5.8% 10.2
2021–22 590 55 9.3% 126 21.36 8.0% 16
2022–23 610 43 7.0% 89 14.59 8.3% 16.6
2023–24 629 41 6.5% 71 11.29 7.9% 16.1
2024–25 630 21 3.3% 43 6.83 7.7% 15.3
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Salado MS in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline 21 3.3% 43 6.83 7.7% 15.3
In-school suspensions 18 2.9% 29 4.60 7.1% 12.1
Out-of-school suspensions Suppressed — 11 1.75 — 5.1
DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
Mandatory DAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
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.

$4k$27k$51k20182020202220242025
  • Salado MS
  • Parent district: Salado ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$6,616
Selected comparison
$11,035

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 866 rated schools reporting

−$4,419 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $6,616 per student for this campus, $48,116 per student for its parent district, Salado 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
YearSalado MSParent district: Salado ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$7,341$9,769$13,054$7,496 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 774 rated schools reporting
2019$4,937$14,681$13,108$7,563 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 787 rated schools reporting
2020$5,556$28,875$14,058$7,894 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 798 rated schools reporting
2021$6,599$13,516$14,797$8,356 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 805 rated schools reporting
2022$6,196$12,991$15,708$9,361 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 821 rated schools reporting
2023$6,259$12,942$16,792$9,966 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 840 rated schools reporting
2024$6,380$17,472$18,125$10,989 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 854 rated schools reporting
2025$6,616$48,116$18,972$11,035 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 866 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
$69,235+$668 vs similar economic context
Teachers
33−21.2 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
17.9+3.1 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Salado MS

1 to 5 years: 19.9%6 to 10 years: 10.3%11 to 20 years: 36.6%21 to 30 years: 24.5%Over 30 years: 8.8%
  • 1 to 5 years 19.9%
  • 6 to 10 years 10.3%
  • 11 to 20 years 36.6%
  • 21 to 30 years 24.5%
  • Over 30 years 8.8%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 875 reporting for every category shown · 875 in full cohort

Beginning: 4.7%1 to 5 years: 22.5%6 to 10 years: 19.7%11 to 20 years: 32.4%21 to 30 years: 17.3%Over 30 years: 3.1%
  • Beginning 4.7%
  • 1 to 5 years 22.5%
  • 6 to 10 years 19.7%
  • 11 to 20 years 32.4%
  • 21 to 30 years 17.3%
  • Over 30 years 3.1%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Salado MS in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classSalado MS · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Grade 623.419.3
Secondary English23.717.3
Secondary languages other than English20.219.6
Secondary math21.818
Secondary science20.619.7
Secondary social studies21.719.8

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 120 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.

#4–10 rankings

Fourth- through tenth-place results

2 measures

  • 10of 97

    Chronically absent (lowest is best)

    Bell County · of the 97 that report this measure

  • 10of 93

    Science — Masters

    Bell County · of the 93 that report this measure

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.

Download the full dataset · this campus's district

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 014908042.