IRION EL

IRION EL is one of the minimally staffed elementary schools in MERTZON, Texas, operated by IRION COUNTY ISD, with 200 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so IRION EL sits 61% leaner than that benchmark.

Within IRION COUNTY ISD, which oversees 2 schools and 334 students, IRION EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, IRION EL records that 75% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school reports 25% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Irion County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, IRION EL shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, IRION EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.0%, the actual is 57.9%, a residual of -3.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Irion County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,357, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. IRION EL is one of 2 public schools in Irion County (combined enrollment of about 334 students).

IRION H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, IRION EL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.3%.

IRION EL operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 38%: 145 students in 2018 compared to 200 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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