B B OWEN EL

Set in THE COLONY, Texas, B B OWEN EL is an intimate elementary campus, operated by LEWISVILLE ISD. It serves 274 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

LEWISVILLE ISD runs 62 schools in total, collectively educating 47,876 students. B B OWEN EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, B B OWEN EL reports that the largest single group is White at 36%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 32% Hispanic, 18% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the resource side, B B OWEN EL shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Denton County (around 35%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, B B OWEN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.1%.

Zooming out to the county, Denton County reports that median household income runs about $111,498, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which B B OWEN EL is one.

STEM ACADEMY AT GRIFFIN MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, B B OWEN EL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at B B OWEN EL has contracted 29%, going from 388 students in 2018 to 274 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 44% to 36% over that span.

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