RAMEY EL

Located at 2000 N FOREST, in TYLER, Texas, RAMEY EL is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that caters to 517 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within TYLER ISD.

TYLER ISD comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 18,708 students; RAMEY EL is among them.

On demographics, RAMEY EL records that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 30% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, RAMEY EL shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Smith County (around 64%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RAMEY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.2%.

In the broader community, census data for Smith County shows median household earnings sit near $74,192, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. RAMEY EL is one of 65 public schools in Smith County (combined enrollment of about 37,385 students).

PREMIER H S OF TYLER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RAMEY EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RAMEY EL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 31.4%.

RAMEY EL operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. RAMEY EL's enrollment has expanded 13% since 2018, when it stood at 459 (now 517). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 41% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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