CACTUS EL

CACTUS EL operates as a medium-sized primary school in CACTUS, Texas, part of DUMAS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 487 students spanning grades pre-K through 4.

DUMAS ISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,101 students; CACTUS EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, CACTUS EL lists that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 8% Black, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Moore County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CACTUS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.8%; this one delivers 20.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Moore County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,762 per year, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. CACTUS EL is one of 14 public schools in Moore County (combined enrollment of about 5,694 students).

Nearest neighbor: SUNRAY H S, around 9.7 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CACTUS EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 36%: 357 students in 2018 compared to 487 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 20% to 4% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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