LAWN EL

LAWN EL is an elementary campus of low-enrollment scale in LAWN, Texas, overseen by JIM NED CISD, caters to 296 students in grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 43% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

JIM NED CISD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,639 students. LAWN EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LAWN EL logs that White students make up the majority at 72%; the rest comes out to 20% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, LAWN EL has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Taylor County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, LAWN EL sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 60.3%; actual is 76.0%, +15.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Taylor County) shows that median household earnings sit near $67,139, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. LAWN EL is one of 54 public schools in Taylor County (combined enrollment of about 24,159 students).

Nearest neighbor: JIM NED MIDDLE, around 6.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, LAWN EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.2%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. LAWN EL's enrollment has grew 18% since 2018, when it stood at 251 (now 296). The White share of enrollment decreased from 84% to 72% over that span.

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