AVONDALE EL

AVONDALE EL operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in AMARILLO, Texas, part of AMARILLO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 475 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

AMARILLO ISD comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 29,321 students; AVONDALE EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, AVONDALE EL logs that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 35% White, 16% Black, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Potter County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, AVONDALE EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.9%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Potter County indicate median household earnings sit near $53,249, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. AVONDALE EL is one of 49 public schools in Potter County (combined enrollment of about 21,501 students).

TASCOSA H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, AVONDALE EL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 515 students in 2018 compared to 475 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 43% to 35% over that span.

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