BERTRAM EL

BERTRAM EL, a low-enrollment elementary school in BERTRAM, Texas, part of BURNET CISD, hosts 437 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

BURNET CISD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,209 students; BERTRAM EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, BERTRAM EL lists that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 41% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BERTRAM EL has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BERTRAM EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.1%; this one comes in at 29.3%, -17.8 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Burnet County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,732 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. BERTRAM EL is one of 13 public schools in Burnet County (combined enrollment of about 7,210 students).

LIBERTY HILL H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.3 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BERTRAM EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BERTRAM EL has ticked up 16%, going from 376 students in 2018 to 437 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 59% to 54% over that span.

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