CENTRAL EL

CENTRAL EL operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in LEWISVILLE, Texas, overseen by LEWISVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 573 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

CENTRAL EL is one of 62 schools operated by LEWISVILLE ISD, a district that works with 47,876 students overall.

In terms of who attends, CENTRAL EL reports that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CENTRAL EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 95% of students at CENTRAL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Denton County (around 35%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CENTRAL EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.9%.

In the broader community, census data for Denton County shows median household income runs about $111,498, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which CENTRAL EL is one.

MILL STREET EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CENTRAL EL. On composite proficiency, CENTRAL EL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 37%: 908 students in 2018 compared to 573 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 94% to 87% across the same window.

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