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BALL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BALL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
BALL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is an elementary-level community of tight-knit scale in SEGUIN, Texas, run under SEGUIN ISD, caters to 422 students in grade pre-K.
BALL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is one of 14 schools operated by SEGUIN ISD, a district that caters to 7,290 students overall.
In terms of who attends, BALL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 39% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BALL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at BALL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Guadalupe County's rate of about 45%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Guadalupe County) logs that median household earnings sit near $92,375, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Guadalupe County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,977 students), of which BALL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is one.
Nearest neighbor: DISCIPLINE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL AT SAEGERT, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BALL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER.
The school occupies a town-center site.
Looking at the recent track record. BALL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER's enrollment has shrank 21% since 2018, when it stood at 536 (now 422). Class-load math has tightened: from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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