EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, a rural-scale elementary-level community in MISSION, Texas, part of EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, works with 183 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY sits 65% leaner than that benchmark.

EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY sits inside EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY records that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.4%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate median household earnings sit near $54,338, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LEAL EL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 39.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY's enrollment has edged down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 231 (now 183).

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