FREEDOM EL

FREEDOM EL operates as a medium-sized primary school in LAREDO, Texas, part of UNITED ISD. Current enrollment sits at 651 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so FREEDOM EL sits 25% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 51 schools in UNITED ISD (40,742 students total), FREEDOM EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, FREEDOM EL logs that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FREEDOM EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.0%; FREEDOM EL posts 59.0%, +23.9 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Webb County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,058 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Across Webb County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students), FREEDOM EL is one campus in the mix.

RAUL PERALES MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FREEDOM EL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 47.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. FREEDOM EL's enrollment has ticked up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 608 (now 651).

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