BUSH EL

BUSH EL, a moderately sized elementary-level community in MIDLAND, Texas, operated by MIDLAND ISD, educates 527 students, covering grades pre-K through 6.

BUSH EL is one of 40 schools operated by MIDLAND ISD, a district that caters to 29,651 students overall.

In terms of who attends, BUSH EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 27% White, 14% Black, 10% Asian, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Midland County as a whole.

On the resource side, BUSH EL reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BUSH EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 66% of students at BUSH EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Midland County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BUSH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.0%, the actual is 44.6%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the broader community, census data for Midland County shows the typical household earns roughly $92,874 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. BUSH EL is one of 52 public schools in Midland County (combined enrollment of about 35,119 students).

ABELL J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BUSH EL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.8%.

BUSH EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BUSH EL has expanded 11%, going from 473 students in 2018 to 527 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 35% to 27% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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