PHELAN EL

PHELAN EL operates as a medium-sized elementary school in RICHMOND, Texas, part of LAMAR CISD. Current enrollment sits at 743 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 43% above typical.

LAMAR CISD comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 46,786 students; PHELAN EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PHELAN EL logs that the most-represented group is Black (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 30% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 13% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Fort Bend County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PHELAN EL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at PHELAN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PHELAN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.7%.

Across the wider county, census data for Fort Bend County shows the typical household earns roughly $114,041 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), PHELAN EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JUVENILE DETENT CTR, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PHELAN EL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.