BARBARA YARBROUGH EL

BARBARA YARBROUGH EL operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in MIDLAND, Texas, part of MIDLAND ISD. Current enrollment sits at 691 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 33% larger than the state mean of about 519.

BARBARA YARBROUGH EL is one of 40 schools operated by MIDLAND ISD, a district that caters to 29,651 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BARBARA YARBROUGH EL logs that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 28% White, 10% Black, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at BARBARA YARBROUGH EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BARBARA YARBROUGH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.6%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of -6.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Midland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,874 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Midland County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,119 students), of which BARBARA YARBROUGH EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: JONES EL, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BARBARA YARBROUGH EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BARBARA YARBROUGH EL at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 31.4%.

BARBARA YARBROUGH EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BARBARA YARBROUGH EL has held roughly steady, going from 707 students in 2018 to 691 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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