BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY, an intimate elementary campus in HOBBS, New Mexico, overseen by HOBBS, hosts 155 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 46% below the typical public school in New Mexico, which averages around 287 students.

HOBBS runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 10,097 students. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 14% White, 10% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 63% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.9:1 average. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 43.1%, a residual of +1.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lea County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $68,015 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Lea County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,126 students), of which BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY is one.

EDISON ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 26.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY's enrollment has edged down 39% since 2018, when it stood at 255 (now 155). Hispanic enrollment moved from 81% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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