BOWIE EL

BOWIE EL is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in CORSICANA, Texas, part of CORSICANA ISD, serveing 494 students in grades K through 4.

CORSICANA ISD runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,998 students. BOWIE EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, BOWIE EL lists that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 13% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Pacific Islander. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Navarro County (around 71%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

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 48.1%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of -6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, Navarro County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,111 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Navarro County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,681 students), of which BOWIE EL is one.

The closest other public school is COLLINS INT, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BOWIE EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 533 students in 2018 compared to 494 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 48% to 41% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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