PORT ACRES EL

PORT ACRES EL is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in PORT ARTHUR, Texas, overseen by PORT ARTHUR ISD, works with 507 students in grades pre-K through 5.

PORT ACRES EL is one of 13 schools operated by PORT ARTHUR ISD, a district that instructs 8,041 students overall.

On demographics, PORT ACRES EL logs that the most-represented group is Black (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 43% Hispanic, 5% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 33% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PORT ACRES EL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Jefferson County's rate of about 71%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PORT ACRES EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.5%, the actual is 27.7%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $60,026 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students), PORT ACRES EL is one campus in the mix.

MEMORIAL H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, PORT ACRES EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.3%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. PORT ACRES EL's enrollment has grew 25% since 2018, when it stood at 406 (now 507).

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