BONHAM EL

BONHAM EL operates as a moderately sized elementary school in MIDLAND, Texas, one of the schools within MIDLAND ISD. Current enrollment sits at 697 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BONHAM EL sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.

Within MIDLAND ISD, which oversees 40 schools and 29,651 students, BONHAM EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, BONHAM EL reports that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 13% White, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 46%.

On the resource side, On paper, BONHAM EL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 75% of students at BONHAM EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Midland County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BONHAM EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.2%; this one delivers 32.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Midland County shows median household income runs about $92,874, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. BONHAM EL is one of 52 public schools in Midland County (combined enrollment of about 35,119 students).

ALAMO J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BONHAM EL at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 31.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 10%: 631 students in 2018 compared to 697 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 60% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

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