ALTA LOMA EL

ALTA LOMA EL is one of the very small elementary schools in SAN ANGELO, Texas, overseen by SAN ANGELO ISD, with 201 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 61% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within SAN ANGELO ISD, which oversees 23 schools and 13,448 students, ALTA LOMA EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ALTA LOMA EL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 21% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ALTA LOMA EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 85% of students at ALTA LOMA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Tom Green County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, ALTA LOMA EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.0%; actual is 21.0%, a gap of -15.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Tom Green County shows median household earnings sit near $68,370, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. ALTA LOMA EL is one of 81 public schools in Tom Green County (combined enrollment of about 18,896 students).

The closest other public school is MCGILL EL, roughly 1.0 miles away. 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), ALTA LOMA EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. ALTA LOMA EL's enrollment has declined 40% since 2018, when it stood at 335 (now 201). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2024.

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