SAM HOUSTON EL

Located at 500 N BEDDOES, in LA FERIA, Texas, SAM HOUSTON EL is a medium-sized primary school that caters to 456 students (grades pre-K through 4), overseen by LA FERIA ISD.

LA FERIA ISD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 2,861 students; SAM HOUSTON EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, SAM HOUSTON EL logs that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% White.

On the resource side, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SAM HOUSTON EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Cameron County's rate of about 84%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SAM HOUSTON EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.2%; this one delivers 50.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cameron County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Across Cameron County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), SAM HOUSTON EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LA FERIA ACADEMY, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SAM HOUSTON EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. SAM HOUSTON EL's enrollment has ticked down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 514 (now 456).

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