SOUTH EL

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in PLAINVIEW, Texas, SOUTH EL caters to 456 students from grades pre-K through 4, run under PLAINVIEW ISD.

Within PLAINVIEW ISD, which oversees 7 schools and 4,077 students, SOUTH EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SOUTH EL lists that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 11% White, 4% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hale County (around 73%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SOUTH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.8%, the actual is 29.7%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Across the wider county, Hale County reports that the typical household earns roughly $51,897 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOUTH EL is one of 24 public schools in Hale County (combined enrollment of about 6,064 students).

The closest other public school is PLAINVIEW CLASSICAL ACADEMY, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTH EL. On composite proficiency, SOUTH EL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.

SOUTH EL operates from a town-center location.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.