BOOKER T WASHINGTON EL

BOOKER T WASHINGTON EL, a mid-tier elementary school in ELGIN, Texas, operated by ELGIN ISD, enrolls 638 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 23% above typical.

ELGIN ISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,959 students; BOOKER T WASHINGTON EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, BOOKER T WASHINGTON EL lists that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 7% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Bastrop County as a whole is about 45% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BOOKER T WASHINGTON EL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bastrop County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BOOKER T WASHINGTON EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.2%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Bastrop County shows median household earnings sit near $86,226, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bastrop County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,931 students), of which BOOKER T WASHINGTON EL is one.

The closest other public school is ELGIN INT, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around BOOKER T WASHINGTON EL. On composite proficiency, BOOKER T WASHINGTON EL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BOOKER T WASHINGTON EL has edged up 3%, going from 622 students in 2018 to 638 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 74% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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