ALMA BREWER STRAWN EL

ALMA BREWER STRAWN EL operates as a moderately sized primary school in DALE, Texas, run under LOCKHART ISD. Current enrollment sits at 529 students spanning grades K through 5.

LOCKHART ISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 6,753 students; ALMA BREWER STRAWN EL is among them.

On demographics, ALMA BREWER STRAWN EL logs that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest is composed of 4% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 89% of students at ALMA BREWER STRAWN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Caldwell County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ALMA BREWER STRAWN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.5%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Caldwell County put median household income runs about $69,758, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Caldwell County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,286 students), ALMA BREWER STRAWN EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CAMINO REAL EL, around 5.7 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, ALMA BREWER STRAWN EL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 23.9%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 5%: 503 students in 2018 compared to 529 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 91% to 95% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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