SOUTH EL

SOUTH EL is an elementary-level community of tight-knit scale in DAINGERFIELD, Texas, operated by DAINGERFIELD-LONE STAR ISD, educateing 216 students in grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SOUTH EL sits 58% leaner than that benchmark.

SOUTH EL is one of 4 schools operated by DAINGERFIELD-LONE STAR ISD, a district that caters to 1,026 students overall.

Demographically, SOUTH EL lists that the largest single group is Black at 37%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 32% White, 21% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Morris County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, SOUTH EL reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 84% of students at SOUTH EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Morris County runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOUTH EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 37.7%; SOUTH EL posts 23.4%, -14.4 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Morris County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $58,645 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Morris County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,879 students), SOUTH EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DAINGERFIELD H S, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTH EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.9%.

SOUTH EL operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTH EL has fell 5%, going from 228 students in 2018 to 216 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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