JOHN AND NELDA PARTIN EL

Set in VAN ALSTYNE, Texas, JOHN AND NELDA PARTIN EL is a medium-sized K-5 school, part of VAN ALSTYNE ISD. It educates 483 students across grades pre-K through 4.

VAN ALSTYNE ISD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,612 students. JOHN AND NELDA PARTIN EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, JOHN AND NELDA PARTIN EL lists that White students make up the majority at 67%; the rest looks like 23% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Grayson County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Grayson County (around 53%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, JOHN AND NELDA PARTIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.9%, the actual is 59.0%, a residual of -7.9 points.

Around the school, census data for Grayson County shows median household income runs about $72,182, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Grayson County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,915 students), JOHN AND NELDA PARTIN EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: VAN ALSTYNE H S, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHN AND NELDA PARTIN EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JOHN AND NELDA PARTIN EL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. JOHN AND NELDA PARTIN EL's enrollment has ticked down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 616 (now 483). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 80% to 67%.

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