Miles El, Miles TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Miles El

Miles Elementary is a small, rural K-6 school in southwestern Texas serving a town of modest and stable population. The school enrolls a small student body across pre-K through sixth grade, drawn from a community where homeownership is high and the economy remains tied to agriculture and small local business. About half the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the area's economic character.

The school's student composition is predominantly white, with a meaningful Hispanic population and smaller numbers of other backgrounds. Specific data on special education and English learner enrollment were not available, so a parent seeking those details would want to contact the school directly.

On state testing, Miles Elementary shows solid performance across math and language arts. In language arts, the school reaches proficiency levels that are notably strong, particularly in third grade. Math proficiency runs in a similar range across grades, with particularly strong results in sixth grade. Science performance is notably softer, with about half of fifth graders meeting the proficiency threshold; this is a soft spot a parent may want to look into further with the school. Performance data at the "meets" and "masters" levels across all subjects shows the school reaching proficiency targets for a substantial majority of students, though the share achieving the highest mastery level is more modest.

When measured against the other districts in Runnels County, Miles Elementary's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile, a meaningful position given the county context.

The school offers band instruction, a structured arts outlet for students in the upper grades. Beyond that, specific program offerings such as enrichment, intervention, tutoring, or extracurricular breadth were not detailed in available data, leaving that a question for the school itself.

Miles sits in the small downtown core where civic and school functions overlap. The town has held roughly flat or slowly declined in population for decades, with the housing market remaining thin and oriented toward land and acreage sales rather than active subdivision growth. Miles ISD called a property-tax-funded bond referendum in late 2024 for school facilities construction, a change that would affect the tax burden for homeowners and families considering a move to the area.

The school serves families choosing small-town rural life, agricultural community ties, and a consolidated peer environment. It is neither a growth area nor an urban setting, but rather a stable, long-rooted community where the school and town functions operate within the same few blocks and families typically remain connected to land and local work.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 379%

School 79% · District 79%

▲ 39 pts above state median

Grade 468%

School 68% · District 68%

▲ 27 pts above state median

Grade 569%

School 69% · District 69%

▲ 28 pts above state median

Grade 681%

School 81% · District 81%

▲ 47 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 388%

School 88% · District 88%

▲ 42 pts above state median

Grade 479%

School 79% · District 79%

▲ 30 pts above state median

Grade 574%

School 74% · District 74%

▲ 20 pts above state median

Grade 678%

School 78% · District 78%

▲ 26 pts above state median

Science

Grade 552%

School 52% · District 52%

▲ 29 pts above state median

This schoolMILES 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-income80%Higher-income96%16 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income63%Higher-income95%32 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income58%Higher-income87%29 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income67%Higher-income88%21 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income70%Higher-income87%17 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income53%Higher-income84%31 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income53%Higher-income83%30 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income73%Higher-income88%15 pp gap