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Enrollment
473
Elementary
DISTRICT 502 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ABILENE ISD·NCES 480744000014
Bowie Elementary School
2034 JEANETTE ST, ABILENE, TX 79602 · (325) 671-4770 · Taylor County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL473 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
411 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 2 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (65).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
38.0%
TX avg 54.5% . -12.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
32.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -18.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 12 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 18 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 12.0% | 26.0% | 24.0% | 38.0% |
| Mathematics | 10.0% | 22.0% | 20.0% | 48.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 38.0% | 32.0% |
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 31.0% |
| 2021-22 | 63.0% | 38.0% |
| 2020-21 | 50.0% | 50.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bowie Elementary School
Bowie Elementary School's state test result (32.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowie Elementary School this school | 473 | 86.9% | 32.3% |
| Stafford Elementary School ABILENE | 473 | 85.4% | 40.5% |
| Bel Air Elementary School ATHENS | 465 | 81.9% | 46.1% |
| High Point Elementary School NAVASOTA | 519 | 87.7% | 23.6% |
| San Leon Elementary School DICKINSON | 540 | 83.0% | 42.5% |
| Milam Elementary School CONROE | 590 | 82.9% | 39.7% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bowie Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Taylor County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.3% | #3,443 of 4,401 | #17 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #3,721 of 4,466 ▼ 289 | #15 of 19 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #3,812 of 4,466 ▼ 15 | #17 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 473 | #2,787 of 4,938 | #13 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #1,127 of 4,622 | #3 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.9% | #1,509 of 4,628 | #12 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.9% | #1,399 of 4,789 | #4 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.2% | #1,582 of 2,838 | #8 of 15 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
473
-56 (-11%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 796
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 13.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 473 | 35.1 | 13.5:1 | 87% (411) |
| 2023-24 | 478 | 34.8 | 13.7:1 | 91% (435) |
| 2022-23 | 476 | 34.4 | 13.9:1 | 87% (416) |
| 2020-21 | 529 | 40 | 13.2:1 | 77% (407) |
| 2017-18 | 558 | 37.2 | 15.0:1 | 86% (479) |
| 2015-16 | 538 | 36 | 14.9:1 | 80% (432) |
| 2010-11 | 621 | 37 | 16.8:1 | 83% (518) |
| 2000-01 | 487 | 41 | 11.9:1 | 68% (329) |
| 1990-91 | 796 | 45 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bowie Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (558 to 473); teachers down 6% (37.2 to 35.1).
About Bowie Elementary School
Bowie Elementary School is an elementary school in ABILENE, Texas, according to federal school records. The school counts 473 students across pre-K through 5.
ABILENE ISD enrolls 14,536 students, and its 26 schools include Bowie Elementary School.
Bowie Elementary School's enrollment is 55% Hispanic. Other groups make up 32% White, 9% Black, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 25% of Taylor County residents are Hispanic. Bowie Elementary School has a diversity index of 59%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Bowie Elementary School's 35.1 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 13.5:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Texas average 15.1:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 87%. That rate is above the 53% average among public schools in Taylor County.
Bowie Elementary School is 4.3 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (32.3% versus 36.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Texas.
Among Taylor County residents, median household income is about $67,139, roughly 29% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 54 public schools in Taylor County, with a combined enrollment of about 24,159.
The next-closest public school is Taylor County Learning Center, about 0.7 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Bowie Elementary School at 4th of 4.
Federal data place Bowie Elementary School in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment was 529 in 2020-21 and 473 in 2024-25, a decrease of 56 students.
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Taylor County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
145,863
Census ACS
Median income
$67,139
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
24,159 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ABILENE ISD
- Abilene High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cooper High SchoolHigh · 1,570 students
- Mann Middle SchoolMiddle · 776 students
- Craig Middle SchoolMiddle · 771 students
- Madison Middle SchoolMiddle · 770 students
- Austin Elementary SchoolElementary · 729 students
Other schools in ABILENE
- Abilene High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cooper High SchoolHigh · 1,570 students
- Wylie High SchoolHigh · 1,537 students
- Wylie West Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,038 students
- Texas Leadership of AbileneCombined · 834 students
- Mann Middle SchoolMiddle · 776 students
Other Bowie Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 2 states are named Bowie Elementary. Bowie Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 11.
- Bowie Elementary SchoolDALLAS, TX · 644 students
- Bowie Elementary SchoolGREENVILLE, TX · 601 students
- Bowie Elementary SchoolSAN MARCOS, TX · 580 students
- Bowie Elementary SchoolROSENBERG, TX · 523 students
- Bowie Elementary SchoolENNIS, TX · 506 students
Nearby schools
- Taylor County Learning Center0.7 mi · 26
- Juvenile Detention Center0.7 mi · 11
- Alcorta Elementary School1.1 mi · 410
- Premier H S of Abilene1.1 mi · 176
- Texasworks - Abilene1.1 mi · 36
- Madison Middle School1.2 mi · 770
Frequently asked questions
About Bowie Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Bowie Elementary School?
Bowie Elementary School enrolls approximately 473 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Bowie Elementary School serve?
Bowie Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Bowie Elementary School?
Approximately 13.5:1 students per teacher at Bowie Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bowie Elementary School?
At Bowie Elementary School, the student body is approximately 32% White, 55% Hispanic, 9% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Bowie Elementary School in?
Bowie Elementary School is part of ABILENE ISD.
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