Scotland Park El, Wichita Falls TX

Original Research by School Decision on Scotland Park El

Scotland Park Elementary serves the early grades in a school system navigating substantial change. The school enrolls students in pre-K through fifth grade, with a student body that is majority Hispanic and Black, and a very high share who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. This is a school serving a neighborhood with significant economic challenge.

Academic performance here sits below the midpoint among Wichita County districts. In math, third graders show limited proficiency, while fifth graders perform better; reading spans a narrow range from third through fifth grade, with modest proficiency rates across the grades. Science was tested only in a very small cohort. The data available captures only the most recent school year, so trends cannot be tracked. A parent seeking to understand academic trajectory and whether the school is building momentum would want to look into this further with the school directly.

Wichita Falls itself is a mid-sized North Texas city anchored economically by Sheppard Air Force Base, along with healthcare, manufacturing, and aerospace supply. The median home value sits well below the Texas state median, making it one of the more affordable housing markets in the state. The downtown core is the city's walkable amenity hub, while residential growth is clustering at the city's edges and in newer subdivisions closer to the base. Recent civic investments include a downtown two-way street conversion and new pedestrian signals. The district itself made a major structural shift through a bond-funded consolidation of three aging high schools into two identical new buildings that opened in 2024, reflecting a decision to build separated, modern campuses rather than a downtown-integrated model.

Scotland Park is a regular public school of modest size for its grade band. It sits in a neighborhood where the overwhelming share of families qualify for lunch assistance, suggesting a concentration of economic need. The racial and ethnic composition is diverse, weighted toward Hispanic and Black students. Data on English learners and special education enrollment was not available. The school does not appear to have magnet or charter status.

The immediate questions a parent would reasonably ask are whether the school has the resources to serve this population well, how it addresses reading and math gaps, and what kind of support and intervention systems are in place. State testing results alone do not answer those. A visit and conversation with school staff about instructional priorities, classroom composition, and the school's plan for students who come in below grade level would give you the texture these numbers do not.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 316%

School 16% · District 34% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 545%

School 45% · District 9% · ▲ 36 pts above district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 333%

School 33% · District 44% · ▼ 11 pts below district

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

Grade 432%

School 32% · District 44% · ▼ 12 pts below district

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

This schoolWICHITA FALLS 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 6Lower-income64%Higher-income60%4 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income59%Higher-income60%1 pp gap