EDISON ELEMENTARY

Located at 501 EAST GYPSY, in HOBBS, New Mexico, EDISON ELEMENTARY is a close-knit elementary-level community that hosts 225 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within HOBBS. Compared to the state average of about 287 students per school, that is 22% leaner than typical.

Within HOBBS, which oversees 18 schools and 10,097 students, EDISON ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, EDISON ELEMENTARY logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 8% White. The wider county runs roughly 63% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, EDISON ELEMENTARY logs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 65% of students at EDISON ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, EDISON ELEMENTARY is in the bottom 10% of New Mexico public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 41.7%; EDISON ELEMENTARY posts 23.8%, -17.9 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for Lea County shows 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%. EDISON ELEMENTARY is one of 38 public schools in Lea County (combined enrollment of about 15,126 students).

The closest other public school is BOOKER T. WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EDISON ELEMENTARY comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 29.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. EDISON ELEMENTARY's enrollment has contracted 28% since 2018, when it stood at 312 (now 225). Black enrollment moved from 6% to 2% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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