CHISUM EL

CHISUM EL, a moderately sized primary school in PARIS, Texas, run under CHISUM ISD, educates 584 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 3 schools in CHISUM ISD (1,184 students total), CHISUM EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CHISUM EL records that White students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 41% of students at CHISUM EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Lamar County's rate of about 61%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHISUM EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.8%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of -5.5 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Lamar County put median household income runs about $61,880, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Lamar County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,516 students), of which CHISUM EL is one.

CHISUM MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CHISUM EL. On composite proficiency, CHISUM EL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. CHISUM EL's enrollment has ticked up 33% since 2018, when it stood at 440 (now 584). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 85% to 79% over that span.

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