COLUMBUS EL

Set in COLUMBUS, Texas, COLUMBUS EL is a well-populated elementary school, one of the schools within COLUMBUS ISD. It teaches 798 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so COLUMBUS EL sits 54% larger than that benchmark.

COLUMBUS ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,659 students; COLUMBUS EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, COLUMBUS EL records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 39% White, 10% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, COLUMBUS EL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 65% of students at COLUMBUS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), COLUMBUS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.7%; this one delivers 38.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Colorado County put the typical household earns roughly $66,377 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Colorado County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,697 students), COLUMBUS EL is one campus in the mix.

COLUMBUS CROSSING H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around COLUMBUS EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts COLUMBUS EL at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 40.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 15%: 694 students in 2018 compared to 798 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 52% to 46%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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