CORONADO EL

CORONADO EL, an intimate elementary school in AMARILLO, Texas, one of the schools within AMARILLO ISD, serves 435 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

AMARILLO ISD comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 29,321 students; CORONADO EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, CORONADO EL lists that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 40% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Randall County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Randall County's rate of about 44%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CORONADO EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 44.7%, a residual of +1.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Randall County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,864 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Randall County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,668 students), CORONADO EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is AUSTIN MIDDLE, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CORONADO EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 45.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. CORONADO EL's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 501 (now 435). Hispanic enrollment moved from 30% to 40% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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