COLT EL

COLT EL is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in MARBLE FALLS, Texas, run under MARBLE FALLS ISD, with 572 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

MARBLE FALLS ISD runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,001 students. COLT EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, COLT EL lists that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 44% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Burnet County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting COLT EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 58% of students at COLT EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), COLT EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.4%; this one delivers 42.5%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Burnet County put the typical household earns roughly $78,732 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. COLT EL is one of 13 public schools in Burnet County (combined enrollment of about 7,210 students).

The closest other public school is MARBLE FALLS H S, roughly 1.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, COLT EL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at COLT EL has contracted 9%, going from 627 students in 2018 to 572 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 50% to 44% over that span.

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