DEXTER ELEMENTARY

DEXTER ELEMENTARY is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in DEXTER, New Mexico, part of DEXTER, teacheing 330 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within DEXTER, which oversees 3 schools and 772 students, DEXTER ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DEXTER ELEMENTARY lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). Beyond that, the school logs 15% White. By comparison, Chaves County as a whole is about 58% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, DEXTER ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 27.0%, a residual of -6.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Chaves County) shows that median household earnings sit near $52,938, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 20% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Chaves County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,504 students), of which DEXTER ELEMENTARY is one.

DEXTER MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DEXTER ELEMENTARY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. DEXTER ELEMENTARY's enrollment has declined 25% since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 330). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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