DEQUEEN EL

Located at 740 DEQUEEN BLVD, in PORT ARTHUR, Texas, DEQUEEN EL is a tight-knit elementary-level community that educates 232 students (grades 3 through 5), one of the schools within PORT ARTHUR ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so DEQUEEN EL sits 55% smaller than that benchmark.

DEQUEEN EL is one of 13 schools operated by PORT ARTHUR ISD, a district that caters to 8,041 students overall.

Looking at the student body, DEQUEEN EL lists that 66% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 32% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 33% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, DEQUEEN EL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at DEQUEEN 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 noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DEQUEEN EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.6%; DEQUEEN EL posts 19.1%, -14.5 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for Jefferson County shows median household income runs about $60,026, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students), DEQUEEN EL is one campus in the mix.

TEKOA ACADEMY OF ACCELERATED STUDIES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DEQUEEN EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 20%: 291 students in 2018 compared to 232 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 71% to 66% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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