BLANCO EL

BLANCO EL is a primary school of mid-sized scale in BLANCO, Texas, operated by BLANCO ISD, enrolling 480 students in grades pre-K through 5.

BLANCO ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,102 students; BLANCO EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, BLANCO EL lists that White students make up the majority at 56%. The remainder reads as 38% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Blanco County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 53% of students at BLANCO EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Blanco County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, BLANCO EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.9%; actual is 35.9%, a gap of -15.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Blanco County) logs that median household income runs about $92,425, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Blanco County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,809 students), BLANCO EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BLANCO MIDDLE, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around BLANCO EL. On composite proficiency, BLANCO EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 59.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. BLANCO EL's enrollment has increased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 444 (now 480). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 48% to 38%.

On the community side, the feed for BLANCO EL typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.