KIRKSEY EL

Set in BOOKER, Texas, KIRKSEY EL is a rural-scale primary school, run under BOOKER ISD. It instructs 170 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so KIRKSEY EL sits 67% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in BOOKER ISD (343 students total), KIRKSEY EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, KIRKSEY EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 28% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIRKSEY EL sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 45.6%; actual is 67.7%, +22.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Lipscomb County put the typical household earns roughly $72,560 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. KIRKSEY EL is one of 4 public schools in Lipscomb County (combined enrollment of about 611 students).

Nearest neighbor: BOOKER JH/H S, around 0.2 miles off. On composite proficiency, KIRKSEY EL comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

KIRKSEY EL operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. KIRKSEY EL's enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 210 (now 170).

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