COLMESNEIL EL

COLMESNEIL EL, an intimate elementary campus in COLMESNEIL, Texas, one of the schools within COLMESNEIL ISD, hosts 220 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 58% leaner than the state mean of about 519.

COLMESNEIL ISD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 414 students. COLMESNEIL EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, COLMESNEIL EL records that nearly all students (89%) are White. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 78%.

On the income-and-resources front, COLMESNEIL EL shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting COLMESNEIL EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Tyler County's rate of about 62%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, COLMESNEIL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.1%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of -2.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tyler County put median household earnings sit near $55,396, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tyler County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,382 students), COLMESNEIL EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is COLMESNEIL JH/HS, roughly 0.0 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, COLMESNEIL EL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 267 students in 2018 compared to 220 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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