SONORA EL

Set in SONORA, Texas, SONORA EL is an intimate elementary campus, run under SONORA ISD. It serves 365 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SONORA EL sits 30% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in SONORA ISD (643 students total), SONORA EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, SONORA EL logs that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 21% White. The wider county runs roughly 63% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SONORA EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 51.3%; this one comes in at 35.1%, -16.2 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Sutton County reports that median household earnings sit near $78,906, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SONORA EL is one of 2 public schools in Sutton County (combined enrollment of about 643 students).

SONORA SECONDARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, SONORA EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 50.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SONORA EL has contracted 6%, going from 387 students in 2018 to 365 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 70% to 79% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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