BLANCHETTE EL

BLANCHETTE EL is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in BEAUMONT, Texas, one of the schools within BEAUMONT ISD, with 485 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Across the 26 schools in BEAUMONT ISD (16,336 students total), BLANCHETTE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, BLANCHETTE EL reports that the largest single group is Black, at 76% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 18% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 33% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jefferson County (around 71%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BLANCHETTE EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.3%; BLANCHETTE EL posts 16.5%, -15.8 points below that line.

In the broader community, Jefferson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,026 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. BLANCHETTE EL is one of 92 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students).

The closest other public school is ODOM MIDDLE, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BLANCHETTE EL comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 26.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 23%: 628 students in 2018 compared to 485 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 80% to 76% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.