The top reported proficiency rate is 68% in English language arts. The lowest is 50% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Crockett El
Crockett Elementary sits on Girard Street in San Marcos, serving kindergarten through fifth grade as part of San Marcos CISD. The school enrolls a few hundred students across six grade levels, a size typical for an elementary school in a mid-sized Texas city. The student body is majority Hispanic, with a substantial White minority and smaller populations of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. A large share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a community with meaningful economic diversity.
San Marcos itself is a college town anchored by Texas State University, whose campus sits near the historic downtown courthouse square. The downtown core is walkable by Texas standards, with restaurants, live music, breweries, and retail organized around a Main Street district. The spring-fed San Marcos River runs through parkland at the city's center. The area has grown quickly, with master-planned communities, new multifamily housing, and commercial development all under way. Home values in the zip code serving Crockett run modestly below the national midpoint and have slipped a bit year over year, while rents have moved slightly upward. For buyers, the price-to-income relationship here is somewhat more accessible than in many peer markets.
On state STAAR assessments, Crockett's results are worth reading carefully. Texas reports three performance tiers: "approaches grade level," "meets grade level," and "masters grade level." Across all tested subjects and grades, a strong majority of Crockett students reach the approaches-grade-level threshold, placing the school's overall proficiency index in the top quartile relative to districts across Hays County. That is a meaningful position. Reading those results more closely, ELA performance is the relative strength: in third grade, reading proficiency is solid, and by fifth grade, nearly three in four students are at or above the meets-grade-level standard, which is the middle tier Texas uses to indicate genuine on-grade performance. Math proficiency runs somewhat lower across third, fourth, and fifth grades, with fifth grade performing best among the three. Science, tested only at fifth grade, sits near the same range as third-grade math. The share of students reaching the masters tier, the highest level, is lower across all subjects, which is a common pattern at schools serving high economically disadvantaged populations, and something a parent may want to ask the school about when thinking through long-term academic trajectory.
Trend data is limited to a single year, so there is no multi-year picture of whether results are rising or holding. Chronic absenteeism and attendance data were not available in the data provided.
The district context matters here. San Marcos CISD has been navigating real financial pressure. Voters approved a bond in 2023, the district's first in many years, funding campus improvements and a new elementary building at another campus. But flat state per-student funding and enrollment changes have forced the district to adopt a substantially reduced budget for 2025-26, cut instructional coaches from a large team to a much smaller one, reduce elementary nurse support, and release teachers. Parents at board meetings have raised questions about programs including Fine Arts and Gifted and Talented. These are district-wide changes that reach every campus, and families at Crockett would be right to ask specifically how staffing reductions have landed at the elementary level. Separately, voters approved a tax rate increase in November 2024 to help offset a budget gap, so the combined financial picture for the district involves both a bond levy and an operating rate increase.
Detailed program information for Crockett specifically was not available in the data provided, and English learner and special education population counts were also not reported, so those dimensions of the school's support profile are gaps a family would want to ask about directly. The school's website or a campus visit would be the right place to explore what specialized instruction, intervention, and enrichment actually look like inside the building right now.
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