CHINA EL

As a mid-sized primary school in CHINA, Texas, CHINA EL serves 600 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within HARDIN-JEFFERSON ISD.

Across the 6 schools in HARDIN-JEFFERSON ISD (2,762 students total), CHINA EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, CHINA EL logs that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 25% Black, 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, CHINA EL records 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at CHINA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Jefferson County (around 71%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHINA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of -10.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,026 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. CHINA EL is one of 92 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students).

NEW AE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, CHINA EL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.

CHINA EL operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. CHINA EL's enrollment has expanded 37% since 2018, when it stood at 439 (now 600). Over the same period, the White share fell from 60% to 48%.

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