POTEET INT

POTEET INT is one of the tight-knit primary schools in POTEET, Texas, run under POTEET ISD, with 382 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so POTEET INT sits 26% below that benchmark.

POTEET ISD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,837 students; POTEET INT is among them.

On the student-mix side, POTEET INT lists that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 10% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Atascosa County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), POTEET INT tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.7%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Atascosa County indicate median household earnings sit near $70,770, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. POTEET INT is one of 32 public schools in Atascosa County (combined enrollment of about 8,105 students).

The closest other public school is POTEET EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, POTEET INT comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. POTEET INT's enrollment has edged up 49% since 2018, when it stood at 257 (now 382). Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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