HONOR EL

Set in CONVERSE, Texas, HONOR EL is a roomy elementary-level community, operated by EAST CENTRAL ISD. It caters to 806 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so HONOR EL sits 55% above that benchmark.

Within EAST CENTRAL ISD, which oversees 16 schools and 11,497 students, HONOR EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, HONOR EL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 30% Black, 13% White, 9% multiracial. That is visibly less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the resource side, On paper, HONOR EL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting HONOR EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 64% of students at HONOR EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, HONOR EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 46.5%; actual is 24.7%, a gap of -21.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Bexar County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. HONOR EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

TRADITION EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HONOR EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

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