ALICE PONDER EL

ALICE PONDER EL operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in MANSFIELD, Texas, part of MANSFIELD ISD. Current enrollment sits at 647 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 25% bigger than typical.

MANSFIELD ISD runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 35,354 students. ALICE PONDER EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, ALICE PONDER EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment; the rest looks like 18% Black, 18% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ALICE PONDER EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ALICE PONDER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.9%, the actual is 49.3%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the area at large, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. ALICE PONDER EL is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).

Nearest neighbor: ROGENE WORLEY MIDDLE, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALICE PONDER EL. On composite proficiency, ALICE PONDER EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 60.4%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. ALICE PONDER EL's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 647 (now 647). White enrollment moved from 25% to 18% across the same window.

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