Dew School, Dew TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Dew School

Dew School sits at a rural crossroads in southern Freestone County, Texas, the single campus of Dew ISD, and it serves children from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. There is no high school on site, so families with students approaching that age will need to plan for a transition elsewhere. The school is small even by rural Texas standards, with the total enrollment fitting comfortably within a range that allows teachers to know students individually. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is predominantly white with a meaningful Hispanic share and smaller numbers of other backgrounds.

The community around it is genuinely rural. Dew is an unincorporated crossroads with no city government, no walkable commercial district, and a population that, publicly reported sources indicate, has historically been quite small. The area has roots in 19th-century cotton farming, and the everyday setting is farmland and Post Oak Savannah. County-level employment leans toward healthcare, education, and energy sectors, including lignite mining and natural gas generation near Fairfield, the county seat. There is no public transit, and civic anchors are modest: a Methodist church, a historic cemetery, and county-level recreation at Fairfield Lake State Park. Housing in the zip code has seen a modest decline in value over the past year, and prices sit well below the Texas and national medians, which keeps the area relatively affordable by a price-to-income measure.

The most recent state STAAR results show a picture that varies considerably depending on subject and grade. In reading and language arts, several grades perform solidly: fifth grade and eighth grade both show a large majority of students reaching proficiency, and the school's overall ELA approaches-grade-level rate is strong. Math is more uneven. Third and fourth grade results are encouraging, with most students at or above proficiency, but fifth and sixth grade math results are quite low, and seventh grade sits at about a third proficient. Eighth grade math is closer to the middle. Science results follow a similar split: the fifth-grade science proficiency rate is very low, among the most concerning figures in the data, while eighth-grade science is closer to half proficient. Social studies, tested only at eighth grade here, shows roughly a third of students meeting the standard, and no students reached the mastery level in that subject. The school's overall proficiency index places it at the top of the four districts in Freestone County, relative to districts in Freestone County, which is worth noting in context, but the grade-level gaps in math and science in the middle grades are the numbers a parent would want to ask the school about directly.

Trend data is limited to a single year, so there is no multi-year trajectory available to assess whether these results are improving or stable.

One concrete development worth knowing: in November 2025, Dew ISD voters approved a bond measure, publicly reported by the Freestone County Times, for facility maintenance and upgrades built around a multi-year improvement plan. The district noted that the associated interest-and-sinking tax revenue stays within the district rather than being subject to state recapture, and that homestead exemptions for residents 65 and older or with a disability freeze hold above their frozen tax level. This represents a tangible capital commitment to the single campus.

Demographic subgroup testing data and chronic absenteeism and discipline figures were not available in the data provided. Program offerings beyond the standard curriculum were not listed. For a family whose children are approaching high school age, understanding what transition pathway Dew ISD arranges or recommends would be an important early question.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 376%

School 76% · District 76%

▲ 36 pts above state median

Grade 473%

School 73% · District 73%

▲ 32 pts above state median

Grade 522%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 19 pts below state median

Grade 616%

School 16% · District 16%

▼ 18 pts below state median

Grade 733%

School 33% · District 33%

▲ 6 pts above state median

Grade 858%

School 58% · District 58%

▲ 16 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 341%

School 41% · District 41%

▼ 5 pts below state median

Grade 427%

School 27% · District 27%

▼ 22 pts below state median

Grade 583%

School 83% · District 83%

▲ 29 pts above state median

Grade 642%

School 42% · District 42%

▼ 10 pts below state median

Grade 753%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 875%

School 75% · District 75%

▲ 20 pts above state median

Science

Grade 56%

School 6% · District 6%

▼ 17 pts below state median

Grade 850%

School 50% · District 50%

▲ 8 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 33%

▲ 9 pts above state median

This schoolDEW ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income14%Higher-income60%46 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income20%Higher-income33%13 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income71%Higher-income91%20 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income36%Higher-income50%14 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income43%Higher-income100%57 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income80%Higher-income67%13 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income14%Higher-income27%13 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income18%Higher-income13%5 pp gap