Public school / Primary
Shields El
Victoria, Texas
- NCES ID
- 484415005014
- District
- Victoria ISD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Shields El is a public primary school in Victoria, Texas, run by Victoria ISD. It enrols 441 students — the 45142nd largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
441
Teachers
33.0
Students per teacher
13.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
89.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Victoria ISD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Victoria East H S1,845 students
- 2Victoria West H S1,766 students
- 3Howell Middle757 students
- 4Harold Cade Middle740 students
- 5Patti Welder Middle638 students
- 6Martin De Leon El541 students
- 7Vickers El505 students
- 8Dudley El484 students
- Enrollment−15.2%
- Teachers−5.7%
- Students per teacher−8.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+26.1%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory