ANDREWS EL

ANDREWS EL, a moderately sized elementary school in PORTLAND, Texas, overseen by GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD, enrolls 530 students, covering grades 1 through 5.

GREGORY-PORTLAND ISD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 5,024 students; ANDREWS EL is among them.

On demographics, ANDREWS EL lists that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 24% White, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Patricio County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ANDREWS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for San Patricio County put median household earnings sit near $69,704, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ANDREWS EL is one of 33 public schools in San Patricio County (combined enrollment of about 13,920 students).

Nearest neighbor: EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around ANDREWS EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ANDREWS EL at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 49.0%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 7%: 495 students in 2018 compared to 530 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 57% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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