RED DUKE EL

RED DUKE EL is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in MANVEL, Texas, one of the schools within ALVIN ISD, with 711 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 37% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

RED DUKE EL is one of 37 schools operated by ALVIN ISD, a district that educates 30,038 students overall.

Looking at the student body, RED DUKE EL logs that the largest single group is Black at 33%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 30% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 12% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, RED DUKE EL has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, RED DUKE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.1%, the actual is 48.6%, a residual of -6.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Brazoria County shows median household income runs about $97,993, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Brazoria County runs 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), of which RED DUKE EL is one.

The closest other public school is SHADOW CREEK H S, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RED DUKE EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RED DUKE EL has expanded 33%, going from 533 students in 2018 to 711 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 24% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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