DEPORT EL

DEPORT EL is an elementary school of tiny scale in DEPORT, Texas, overseen by PRAIRILAND ISD, enrolling 154 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 70% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

PRAIRILAND ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,105 students; DEPORT EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, DEPORT EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DEPORT EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 42.3%, a residual of -2.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lamar County put median household earnings sit near $61,880, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lamar County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,516 students), DEPORT EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PRAIRILAND J H, around 5.4 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, DEPORT EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. DEPORT EL's enrollment has increased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 145 (now 154). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 7% to 12% over that span.

On allk12, members of the DEPORT EL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.