PARKWAY EL

PARKWAY EL is an average-sized primary school in MONAHANS, Texas, operated by MONAHANS-WICKETT-PYOTE ISD. The school instructs 646 students in grades 3 through 6. That puts it 24% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 6 schools in MONAHANS-WICKETT-PYOTE ISD (2,181 students total), PARKWAY EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PARKWAY EL records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder comes out to 30% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Ward County as a whole is about 56% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, PARKWAY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Ward County shows median household earnings sit near $65,952, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Ward County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,338 students), of which PARKWAY EL is one.

GEORGE CULLENDER KIND is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PARKWAY EL comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.3%.

PARKWAY EL operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. PARKWAY EL's enrollment has climbed 19% since 2018, when it stood at 543 (now 646). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

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