SHIELDS EL

SHIELDS EL operates as a close-knit elementary-level community in VICTORIA, Texas, operated by VICTORIA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 409 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within VICTORIA ISD, which oversees 25 schools and 12,919 students, SHIELDS EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, SHIELDS EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 11% White, 8% Black, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, SHIELDS EL logs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 88% of students at SHIELDS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Victoria County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SHIELDS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.5%, the actual is 26.6%, a residual of -8.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Victoria County) records that the typical household earns roughly $70,896 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. SHIELDS EL is one of 33 public schools in Victoria County (combined enrollment of about 14,160 students).

Nearest neighbor: CRAIN EL, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SHIELDS EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. SHIELDS EL's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 466 (now 409). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 74% to 79%.

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