SPRINGLAKE-EARTH ELEM/MIDDLE SCHOOL

SPRINGLAKE-EARTH ELEM/MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a very small primary school in EARTH, Texas, overseen by SPRINGLAKE-EARTH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 143 students spanning grades pre-K through 7. Enrollment runs roughly 72% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

SPRINGLAKE-EARTH ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 374 students; SPRINGLAKE-EARTH ELEM/MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, SPRINGLAKE-EARTH ELEM/MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 32% White. By comparison, Lamb County as a whole is about 58% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SPRINGLAKE-EARTH ELEM/MIDDLE SCHOOL has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Lamb County's rate of about 69%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SPRINGLAKE-EARTH ELEM/MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.6%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lamb County put median household earnings sit near $60,760, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lamb County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,773 students), of which SPRINGLAKE-EARTH ELEM/MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is SPRINGLAKE-EARTH DAEP, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SPRINGLAKE-EARTH ELEM/MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 6 years. SPRINGLAKE-EARTH ELEM/MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 44% since 2018, when it stood at 256 (now 143). Hispanic enrollment moved from 74% to 66% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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