NOONAN EL

NOONAN EL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in ALICE, Texas, run under ALICE ISD, instructs 523 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

ALICE ISD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,297 students. NOONAN EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NOONAN EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). The remainder is composed of 10% White. The wider county runs roughly 80% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting NOONAN EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Jim Wells County's rate of about 83%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NOONAN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.3%, the actual is 35.2%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for Jim Wells County shows median household income runs about $51,896, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. In all, Jim Wells County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,302 students), of which NOONAN EL is one.

The closest other public school is SAENZ EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around NOONAN EL. On composite proficiency, NOONAN EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. NOONAN EL's enrollment has climbed 38% since 2018, when it stood at 378 (now 523). Hispanic enrollment moved from 97% to 90% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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