ALTON BOWEN EL

ALTON BOWEN EL is a K-5 school of small scale in BRYAN, Texas, part of BRYAN ISD, caters to 440 students in grades pre-K through 4.

BRYAN ISD runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 16,044 students. ALTON BOWEN EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, ALTON BOWEN EL reports that 35% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 22% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ALTON BOWEN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 49.7%, a residual of +2.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Brazos County indicate median household income runs about $58,553, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Brazos County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,430 students), ALTON BOWEN EL is one campus in the mix.

SAM HOUSTON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALTON BOWEN EL. On composite proficiency, ALTON BOWEN EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 11%: 395 students in 2018 compared to 440 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 45% to 35% over that span.

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