JOHN DOEDYNS EL

JOHN DOEDYNS EL, a close-knit primary school in SAN JUAN, Texas, operated by PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD, teaches 391 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so JOHN DOEDYNS EL sits 25% below that benchmark.

Across the 44 schools in PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD (29,749 students total), JOHN DOEDYNS EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, JOHN DOEDYNS EL records that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

On the resource side, JOHN DOEDYNS EL records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hidalgo County (around 85%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOHN DOEDYNS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.9%, the actual is 38.6%, a residual of +5.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Hidalgo County shows the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. JOHN DOEDYNS EL is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

AMANDA GARZA-PENA EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JOHN DOEDYNS EL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 40.5%.

JOHN DOEDYNS EL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. JOHN DOEDYNS EL's enrollment has shrank 45% since 2018, when it stood at 717 (now 391). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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