BRENDA NORWOOD EL

BRENDA NORWOOD EL is one of the heavily attended elementary campuss in MANSFIELD, Texas, operated by MANSFIELD ISD, with 845 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 63% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 47 schools in MANSFIELD ISD (35,354 students total), BRENDA NORWOOD EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, BRENDA NORWOOD EL logs that the largest single group is Black at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 25% White, 17% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 5% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Johnson County's rate of about 51%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BRENDA NORWOOD EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.4%, the actual is 60.3%, a residual of -0.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Johnson County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $84,859 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Johnson County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,004 students), BRENDA NORWOOD EL is one campus in the mix.

ALMA MARTINEZ INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BRENDA NORWOOD EL at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 58.5%.

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