BONHAM EL

BONHAM EL is a moderately sized primary school in SAN ANGELO, Texas, one of the schools within SAN ANGELO ISD. The school educates 571 students in grades K through 5.

SAN ANGELO ISD comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 13,448 students; BONHAM EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, BONHAM EL reports that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 43% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tom Green County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BONHAM EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 55.4%; this one comes in at 38.7%, -16.7 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Tom Green County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,370 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. BONHAM EL is one of 81 public schools in Tom Green County (combined enrollment of about 18,896 students).

TEXAS LEADERSHIP OF SAN ANGELO is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BONHAM EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BONHAM EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BONHAM EL has stayed largely flat, going from 562 students in 2018 to 571 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 35% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.