ROGERS EL

ROGERS EL is a moderately sized K-5 school in AMARILLO, Texas, one of the schools within AMARILLO ISD. The school works with 490 students in grades pre-K through 5.

ROGERS EL is one of 55 schools operated by AMARILLO ISD, a district that enrolls 29,321 students overall.

On demographics, ROGERS EL records that nearly all students (82%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 7% Black, 6% White, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 39% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Potter County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROGERS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 33.4%, a residual of +0.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Potter County indicate median household income runs about $53,249, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Potter County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,501 students), ROGERS EL is one campus in the mix.

PALO DURO H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ROGERS EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. ROGERS EL's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 545 (now 490). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 72% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.

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