DISHMAN EL

DISHMAN EL is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in BEAUMONT, Texas, one of the schools within BEAUMONT ISD, hosting 500 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 26 schools in BEAUMONT ISD (16,336 students total), DISHMAN EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, DISHMAN EL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 61% of enrollment; the rest consists of 23% Hispanic, 7% White, 5% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 90% 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 Jefferson County's rate of about 71%.

After controlling for student poverty, DISHMAN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.6%, the actual is 33.1%, a residual of -1.5 points.

In the area at large, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,026 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Jefferson County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students), DISHMAN EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: AMELIA EL, around 2.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DISHMAN EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 32.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. DISHMAN EL's enrollment has fell 15% since 2018, when it stood at 586 (now 500). White enrollment moved from 16% to 7% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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