SANTA RITA EL

SANTA RITA EL, a roomy primary school in MIDLAND, Texas, one of the schools within MIDLAND ISD, caters to 835 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SANTA RITA EL sits 61% bigger than that benchmark.

MIDLAND ISD comprises 40 schools with combined enrollment of 29,651 students; SANTA RITA EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, SANTA RITA EL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 25% White, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 46%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, SANTA RITA EL has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 27.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SANTA RITA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.1%, the actual is 50.2%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Midland County indicate median household income runs about $92,874, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Midland County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,119 students), of which SANTA RITA EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: EMERSON EL, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SANTA RITA EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 39%: 600 students in 2018 compared to 835 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 39% to 25% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 27.6:1 in 2025.

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