BOWIE EL

BOWIE EL is one of the average-sized elementary schools in ABILENE, Texas, one of the schools within ABILENE ISD, with 473 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

ABILENE ISD comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 14,536 students; BOWIE EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, BOWIE EL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 32% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Taylor County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, BOWIE EL shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Taylor County's rate of about 53%.

With demographic context factored in, BOWIE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -3.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Taylor County put the typical household earns roughly $67,139 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. BOWIE EL is one of 54 public schools in Taylor County (combined enrollment of about 24,159 students).

Nearest neighbor: JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BOWIE EL comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. BOWIE EL's enrollment has fell 15% since 2018, when it stood at 558 (now 473). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 42% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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