BEN BOLT-PALITO BLANCO EL

Set in ALICE, Texas, BEN BOLT-PALITO BLANCO EL is an intimate elementary campus, overseen by BEN BOLT-PALITO BLANCO ISD. It educates 238 students across grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 54% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 2 schools in BEN BOLT-PALITO BLANCO ISD (444 students total), BEN BOLT-PALITO BLANCO EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, BEN BOLT-PALITO BLANCO EL logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest breaks down as 10% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BEN BOLT-PALITO BLANCO EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BEN BOLT-PALITO BLANCO EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.7%.

In the broader community, Jim Wells County reports that the typical household earns roughly $51,896 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. BEN BOLT-PALITO BLANCO EL is one of 16 public schools in Jim Wells County (combined enrollment of about 7,302 students).

BEN BOLT-PALITO BLANCO H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BEN BOLT-PALITO BLANCO EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 263 students in 2018 compared to 238 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 94% to 90% across the same window.

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