BILL CHILDRESS EL

BILL CHILDRESS EL operates as a small elementary campus in VINTON, Texas, run under CANUTILLO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 386 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 26% leaner than typical.

Across the 10 schools in CANUTILLO ISD (5,747 students total), BILL CHILDRESS EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, BILL CHILDRESS EL logs that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, BILL CHILDRESS EL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BILL CHILDRESS EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.1%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,806, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across El Paso County's 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), BILL CHILDRESS EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CANUTILLO MIDDLE, roughly 1.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BILL CHILDRESS EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. BILL CHILDRESS EL's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 400 (now 386). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.