ROBERT DRISCOLL JR STEM ACADEMY

ROBERT DRISCOLL JR STEM ACADEMY, a reasonably sized elementary campus in ROBSTOWN, Texas, operated by ROBSTOWN ISD, serves 676 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 30% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 5 schools in ROBSTOWN ISD (2,570 students total), ROBERT DRISCOLL JR STEM ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, ROBERT DRISCOLL JR STEM ACADEMY lists that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 2% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 90% of students at ROBERT DRISCOLL JR STEM ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Nueces County's rate of about 67%.

After controlling for student poverty, ROBERT DRISCOLL JR STEM ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.7%, the actual is 24.0%, a residual of -10.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Nueces County) records that the typical household earns roughly $66,897 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Nueces County's 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students), ROBERT DRISCOLL JR STEM ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SEALE J H, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around ROBERT DRISCOLL JR STEM ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROBERT DRISCOLL JR STEM ACADEMY at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 39.9%.

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

Five-year trend. ROBERT DRISCOLL JR STEM ACADEMY's enrollment has increased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 555 (now 676).

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