ALTON EL

ALTON EL operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in ALTON, Texas, run under MISSION CISD. Current enrollment sits at 337 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 35% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

ALTON EL is one of 22 schools operated by MISSION CISD, a district that educates 13,765 students overall.

On demographics, ALTON EL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%); the rest comes out to 3% White.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hidalgo County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ALTON EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate median household earnings sit near $54,338, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), ALTON EL is one campus in the mix.

CANTU EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALTON EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.1%.

ALTON EL operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. ALTON EL's enrollment has edged down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 461 (now 337). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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