STEWART EL

STEWART EL operates as an intimate elementary-level community in LUBBOCK, Texas, overseen by LUBBOCK ISD. Current enrollment sits at 369 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so STEWART EL sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

STEWART EL is one of 49 schools operated by LUBBOCK ISD, a district that instructs 24,237 students overall.

Looking at the student body, STEWART EL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%; the rest looks like 16% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, STEWART EL has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Lubbock County's rate of about 57%.

With demographic context factored in, STEWART 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 45.3%, a residual of +9.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Lubbock County shows median household income runs about $64,155, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Lubbock County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students), of which STEWART EL is one.

WILLIAMS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts STEWART EL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 45.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. STEWART EL's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 438 (now 369). The White share of enrollment declined from 22% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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