DUMAS SOUTH EL

DUMAS SOUTH EL is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in DUMAS, Texas, overseen by DUMAS ISD, hosting 701 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so DUMAS SOUTH EL sits 35% above that benchmark.

Within DUMAS ISD, which oversees 9 schools and 5,101 students, DUMAS SOUTH EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, DUMAS SOUTH EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). The remainder comes out to 10% White, 4% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Moore County as a whole is about 61% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, DUMAS SOUTH EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.3%.

In the area at large, Moore County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,762 per year, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Moore County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,694 students), of which DUMAS SOUTH EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: MORNINGSIDE EL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around DUMAS SOUTH EL. On composite proficiency, DUMAS SOUTH EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.3%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

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