Moran School, Moran TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Moran School

Moran School is the single campus of Moran ISD, a K-12 school in the small rural community of Moran in Shackelford County, West Texas. It sits on Main Avenue in the center of town, which itself is a highway crossroads community historically built on farming, ranching, and oil and gas. The school is small even by rural Texas standards, enrolling well under two hundred students across all grades from pre-K through twelfth. A very large share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic character of the surrounding area. The student body is predominantly white, with a portion of Hispanic students and small numbers of other backgrounds.

The school moved to a four-day school week in fall 2022, a structural change publicly reported as lasting and ongoing. Families considering Moran should weigh this carefully: the compressed schedule affects daily routines, childcare arrangements, and how students manage their time across the week. It is not incidental.

On Texas STAAR assessments, Moran School's proficiency results are low and a parent considering enrollment should look into this carefully with the school. Across tested grades in math and reading, most grade levels show well under half of students reaching the proficient-or-above threshold. The eighth-grade math result was especially weak, with only a small fraction of students reaching that bar. Science results at both fifth and eighth grade were similarly low. Eighth-grade social studies recorded no students at the proficient level among those tested. The one stronger result was sixth-grade reading, where the majority of tested students reached proficiency. The broader STAAR rollup across all subjects shows roughly half of students approaching grade level, but far fewer meeting the standard and only a small fraction at the masters level. Multi-year trend data was available for only the current year, so it is not possible to tell from this data whether results are improving, declining, or holding steady.

Because graduation rate data was not available in this data set, it is not possible to characterize how students are completing high school. Program offerings, AP or dual-credit access, and career pathway information were also not included in the data provided, so a parent interested in upper-grade academic options would need to ask the school directly.

The community context matters here. Moran is a genuinely small and aging town. Its population has been shrinking for most of a century, a long-term contraction from an early-20th-century oil and gas peak. The median age is well above typical community norms, suggesting a retirement-leaning rather than family-growth oriented population. No significant new housing development has been identified. The school and local churches are the primary civic institutions. There is no public library or transit data available for the town, and no walkability to speak of given its rural and remote classification.

Among the districts in Shackelford County, Moran's overall proficiency index sits below the midpoint of the two-district comparison set. The data does not reveal what specific plans or investments the district is making to address academic outcomes, and we found little beyond the four-day week change in the way of publicly reported district-level strategy, so we left that out rather than speculate.

A family drawn to a very small school where students are known individually, in a quiet rural West Texas setting, and who can work around a four-day schedule, will find exactly that here. The academic performance picture as measured by state assessments is one a family should discuss directly with school staff before deciding.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

Not publicly reportedCohort of 5 students · Class of 2021

The federal source does not publish a graduation rate for cohorts this small. The cohort size is shown for context.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,779 schools plotted. 59 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 322%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 18 pts below state median

Grade 420%

School 20% · District 20%

▼ 21 pts below state median

Grade 550%

School 50% · District 50%

▲ 9 pts above state median

Grade 629%

School 29% · District 29%

▼ 5 pts below state median

Grade 723%

School 23% · District 23%

▼ 4 pts below state median

Grade 89%

School 9% · District 9%

▼ 33 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 322%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 24 pts below state median

Grade 420%

School 20% · District 20%

▼ 29 pts below state median

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 21 pts below state median

Grade 671%

School 71% · District 71%

▲ 19 pts above state median

Grade 731%

School 31% · District 31%

▼ 18 pts below state median

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 22 pts below state median

Science

Grade 517%

School 17% · District 17%

▼ 6 pts below state median

Grade 818%

School 18% · District 18%

▼ 24 pts below state median

Social studies

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 0%

▼ 24 pts below state median

This schoolMORAN 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.