DUDLEY EL

DUDLEY EL is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in VICTORIA, Texas, one of the schools within VICTORIA ISD, with 453 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

VICTORIA ISD runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 12,919 students. DUDLEY EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DUDLEY EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 13% White, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at DUDLEY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Victoria County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, DUDLEY EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.8%; DUDLEY EL posts 18.9%, -16.9 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Victoria County put the typical household earns roughly $70,896 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. DUDLEY EL is one of 33 public schools in Victoria County (combined enrollment of about 14,160 students).

Nearest neighbor: VISD SUCCESS ACADEMY, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DUDLEY EL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.4%.

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

Five-year trend. DUDLEY EL's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 473 (now 453). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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