DEWEYVILLE EL

DEWEYVILLE EL, a close-knit elementary campus in ORANGE, Texas, one of the schools within DEWEYVILLE ISD, teaches 270 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 48% below the state mean of about 519.

DEWEYVILLE ISD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 564 students. DEWEYVILLE EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, DEWEYVILLE EL lists that nearly all students (84%) are White. The remainder is composed of 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, DEWEYVILLE EL has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DEWEYVILLE EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Newton County (around 70%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, DEWEYVILLE EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.5%; this one comes in at 31.1%, -18.4 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Newton County) logs that median household earnings sit near $42,618, roughly 7% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. DEWEYVILLE EL is one of 6 public schools in Newton County (combined enrollment of about 1,750 students).

DEWEYVILLE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, DEWEYVILLE EL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 4%: 260 students in 2018 compared to 270 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 91% to 84% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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