Dequeen Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Port Arthur ISD, Dequeen Elementary School is the 7th largest, with 2.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 594 students, so Dequeen Elementary School is smaller than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 4 with 86 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 68, against an average of 77 per grade. This year grade 5 has 15% more students than grade 3 (78 against 68). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Black students are the largest group, at 65.5% of enrollment, a higher share than across Port Arthur ISD (38.5%). Hispanic students are next, at 31.9%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

92.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.7% across Port Arthur ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Dequeen Elementary School has 23.62 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 9.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 232 students would have about 15.7 teachers, so Dequeen Elementary School has 7.9 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies, 1.1 miles away in Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies STEM School. There are 10 elementary schools within 5 miles and 17 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.