WILL ROGERS ELEMENTARY

As a mid-sized primary school in HOBBS, New Mexico, WILL ROGERS ELEMENTARY serves 297 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of HOBBS.

Across the 18 schools in HOBBS (10,097 students total), WILL ROGERS ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, WILL ROGERS ELEMENTARY reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%); the rest comes out to 12% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Lea County as a whole is about 63% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages around 12.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at WILL ROGERS ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lea County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, WILL ROGERS ELEMENTARY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.6%; actual is 26.1%, a gap of -16.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Lea County shows median household earnings sit near $68,015, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Lea County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,126 students), WILL ROGERS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HOUSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WILL ROGERS ELEMENTARY comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.0%.

WILL ROGERS ELEMENTARY operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. WILL ROGERS ELEMENTARY's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 297 (now 297). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 91% to 85%.

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