BARBERS HILL EL SOUTH

Set in MONT BELVIEU, Texas, BARBERS HILL EL SOUTH is an expansive K-5 school, operated by BARBERS HILL ISD. It caters to 891 students across grades 1 through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 72% bigger than the state mean of about 519.

BARBERS HILL ISD runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 7,875 students. BARBERS HILL EL SOUTH is one of those campuses.

On demographics, BARBERS HILL EL SOUTH logs that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at BARBERS HILL EL SOUTH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Chambers County's rate of about 44%.

With demographic context factored in, BARBERS HILL EL SOUTH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.7%, the actual is 67.5%, a residual of +8.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Chambers County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,804 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Chambers County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,701 students), of which BARBERS HILL EL SOUTH is one.

BARBERS HILL MIDDLE SOUTH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BARBERS HILL EL SOUTH ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 73.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BARBERS HILL EL SOUTH has stayed largely flat, going from 893 students in 2018 to 891 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 69% to 51% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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