DON CARTER EL

DON CARTER EL, a reasonably sized elementary school in RICHMOND, Texas, one of the schools within LAMAR CISD, works with 758 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 46% larger than the state mean of about 519.

LAMAR CISD comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 46,786 students; DON CARTER EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, DON CARTER EL reports that the most-represented group is Black (26%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 26% Asian, 22% Hispanic, 20% White, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, DON CARTER EL records 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DON CARTER EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DON CARTER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.3%; this one delivers 66.9%.

Around the school, census data for Fort Bend County shows median household income runs about $114,041, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Fort Bend County runs 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), of which DON CARTER EL is one.

The closest other public school is CORA THOMAS EL, roughly 1.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DON CARTER EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DON CARTER EL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 60.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

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