BOWIE EL

Located at 3700 FOREST TRL, in SAN ANGELO, Texas, BOWIE EL is a tight-knit elementary campus that instructs 340 students (grades K through 5), part of SAN ANGELO ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so BOWIE EL sits 34% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 23 schools in SAN ANGELO ISD (13,448 students total), BOWIE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, BOWIE EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 36% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 62% of students at BOWIE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Tom Green County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, BOWIE EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 46.8%; actual is 29.6%, a gap of -17.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Tom Green County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,370 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. BOWIE 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 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BOWIE EL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BOWIE EL has declined 22%, going from 438 students in 2018 to 340 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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