C Stainke El, Donna TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on C Stainke El

C Stainke Elementary is a small early-grades school in Donna serving pre-K through fifth grade. The enrollment is small, spread across seven grade levels with the largest cohorts in the lower grades. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, with English learners present though their specific count is not available in the data.

The academic picture shows modest proficiency across tested grades. In ELA, fourth graders performed notably better than third or fifth graders, with a meaningful share meeting the standard on the STAAR English assessment. Third graders tested in Spanish showed very low proficiency in ELA, while fifth graders in Spanish showed stronger results. Math proficiency is similarly mixed: fourth graders showed low performance, while fifth graders performed slightly better. Science testing was limited to fifth grade, where proficiency was low. Across all tested content, only a small portion of students scored at the master level, though a larger share reached the "approaches" level, meaning they made progress toward the standard even if not fully proficient yet.

The school serves as one campus within a district that spans about 21 schools across a wide geographic area including Donna proper and surrounding communities. Donna itself is an affordably priced, car-dependent South Texas city where extended families often live in close proximity and Spanish is widely spoken. The community is economically modest, with agriculture and the school district itself as major employment anchors, and growth is happening steadily outward from the historic core.

The state data shows C Stainke's overall proficiency index sits below the midpoint when compared to other schools in Hidalgo County, according to testing results. A parent may want to look into further what supports the school offers for ELA development, particularly in Spanish-language instruction, and what strategies it is using to shore up math proficiency, since those areas show room for strengthening. The school does not serve high school grades, so no graduation rate applies.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 325%

School 25% · District 17% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 436%

School 36% · District 27% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 38% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 1 pts below state median · even with county median

English language arts

Grade 314%

School 14% · District 16% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 32 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

Grade 467%

School 67% · District 29% · ▲ 38 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 28% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Science

Grade 520%

School 20% · District 8% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

This schoolDONNA 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-income39%Higher-income64%25 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income63%Higher-income100%37 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income25%Higher-income64%39 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income35%Higher-income43%8 pp gap