DR MAE E JONES-CLARK EL

DR MAE E JONES-CLARK EL is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in BEAUMONT, Texas, overseen by BEAUMONT ISD, with 530 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

DR MAE E JONES-CLARK EL is one of 26 schools operated by BEAUMONT ISD, a district that enrolls 16,336 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DR MAE E JONES-CLARK EL reports that the largest single group is Black, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 28% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

In terms of school funding signals, About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Jefferson County's rate of about 71%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, DR MAE E JONES-CLARK EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 34.3%; actual is 17.5%, a gap of -16.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Jefferson County reports that median household earnings sit near $60,026, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Jefferson County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students), DR MAE E JONES-CLARK EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SMITH MIDDLE, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DR MAE E JONES-CLARK EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 40.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. DR MAE E JONES-CLARK EL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DR MAE E JONES-CLARK EL has decreased 22%, going from 683 students in 2018 to 530 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 77% to 68%.

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