RUSH EL

Set in LUBBOCK, Texas, RUSH EL is a modestly sized elementary campus, one of the schools within LUBBOCK ISD. It hosts 333 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so RUSH EL sits 36% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 49 schools in LUBBOCK ISD (24,237 students total), RUSH EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, RUSH EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment; the rest consists of 23% White, 12% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Lubbock County's rate of about 57%.

After controlling for student poverty, RUSH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.4%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of +2.1 points.

In the area at large, Lubbock County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,155 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Lubbock County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students), RUSH EL is one campus in the mix.

MACKENZIE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RUSH EL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. RUSH EL's enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 384 (now 333). White enrollment moved from 32% to 23% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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