OVERTON EL

Set in LUBBOCK, Texas, OVERTON EL is a close-knit elementary school, part of LUBBOCK ISD. It caters to 260 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 50% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

LUBBOCK ISD comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 24,237 students; OVERTON EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, OVERTON EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% White, 12% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 36% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lubbock County (around 57%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, OVERTON EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.9%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Lubbock County put the typical household earns roughly $64,155 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Lubbock County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students), of which OVERTON EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: COMMANDER WILLIAM C MCCOOL ACADEMY, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, OVERTON EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.

OVERTON EL operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. OVERTON EL's enrollment has ticked down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 330 (now 260). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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