J R PHILLIPS EL

J R PHILLIPS EL is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in KAUFMAN, Texas, part of KAUFMAN ISD, with 466 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 5.

KAUFMAN ISD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,356 students; J R PHILLIPS EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, J R PHILLIPS EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 28% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, J R PHILLIPS EL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Kaufman County's rate of about 59%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, J R PHILLIPS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.6%, the actual is 34.6%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Across the wider county, Kaufman County reports that median household earnings sit near $89,485, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kaufman County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), of which J R PHILLIPS EL is one.

The closest other public school is J W MONDAY EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, J R PHILLIPS EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

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