BOLES EL

As a rural-scale primary school in QUINLAN, Texas, BOLES EL caters to 202 students from grades pre-K through 4, overseen by BOLES ISD. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 61% smaller than typical.

BOLES ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 543 students; BOLES EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BOLES EL logs that 72% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 23% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hunt County (around 61%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, BOLES EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 52.0%; actual is 35.7%, a gap of -16.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Hunt County put median household earnings sit near $71,938, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. BOLES EL is one of 45 public schools in Hunt County (combined enrollment of about 20,771 students).

The closest other public school is BOLES H S, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around BOLES EL. On composite proficiency, BOLES EL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

BOLES EL operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BOLES EL has fell 6%, going from 216 students in 2018 to 202 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 9% to 23% over that span.

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