ARP EL

ARP EL is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in ARP, Texas, overseen by ARP ISD, hosting 455 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within ARP ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 1,008 students, ARP EL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, ARP EL logs that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 19% Hispanic, 12% Black, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, ARP EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.2%; this one delivers 37.8%.

Zooming out to the county, Smith County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,192, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. ARP EL is one of 65 public schools in Smith County (combined enrollment of about 37,385 students).

Nearest neighbor: ARP H S, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around ARP EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ARP EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. ARP EL's enrollment has expanded 3% since 2018, when it stood at 443 (now 455). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 14% to 19%.

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