BOB HOPE SCHOOL

BOB HOPE SCHOOL, a small middle-grades school in PORT ARTHUR, Texas, operated by BOB HOPE SCHOOL, instructs 473 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 26% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Across the 5 schools in BOB HOPE SCHOOL (2,584 students total), BOB HOPE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, BOB HOPE SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). Beyond that, the school lists 6% Black. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BOB HOPE SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 41.3%; BOB HOPE SCHOOL posts 55.6%, +14.3 points above that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $60,026 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Jefferson County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students), BOB HOPE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: TYRRELL EL, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BOB HOPE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. BOB HOPE SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BOB HOPE SCHOOL has declined 29%, going from 666 students in 2018 to 473 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 2% to 6%. Class-load math has rose: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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