BOB AND BETTY NELSON EL

BOB AND BETTY NELSON EL is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in ALVIN, Texas, run under ALVIN ISD, with 655 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% above the state mean of about 519.

Across the 37 schools in ALVIN ISD (30,038 students total), BOB AND BETTY NELSON EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, BOB AND BETTY NELSON EL lists that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 44% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Brazoria County as a whole.

On the resource side, BOB AND BETTY NELSON EL logs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Brazoria County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, BOB AND BETTY NELSON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 46.3%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Brazoria County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,993, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Brazoria County runs 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), of which BOB AND BETTY NELSON EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ALVIN EL, around 1.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BOB AND BETTY NELSON EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BOB AND BETTY NELSON EL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 50.3%.

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