JP DABBS EL

Located at 302 E LAMBUTH, in DEER PARK, Texas, JP DABBS EL is a medium-sized elementary school that instructs 612 students (grades K through 5), operated by DEER PARK ISD.

Within DEER PARK ISD, which oversees 14 schools and 12,165 students, JP DABBS EL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, JP DABBS EL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%; the rest breaks down as 34% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JP DABBS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 44.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which JP DABBS EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: COLLEGE PARK EL, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JP DABBS EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. JP DABBS EL's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 681 (now 612). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 51% to 61%.

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