CORRIGAN-CAMDEN EL

CORRIGAN-CAMDEN EL is a primary school of small scale in CORRIGAN, Texas, overseen by CORRIGAN-CAMDEN ISD, enrolling 397 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

CORRIGAN-CAMDEN ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 834 students; CORRIGAN-CAMDEN EL is among them.

On demographics, CORRIGAN-CAMDEN EL reports that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 38% White, 15% Black, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 77% of students at CORRIGAN-CAMDEN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Polk County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, CORRIGAN-CAMDEN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 44.3%, a residual of +3.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Polk County shows median household income runs about $62,259, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Polk County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,045 students), CORRIGAN-CAMDEN EL is one campus in the mix.

CORRIGAN-CAMDEN H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around CORRIGAN-CAMDEN EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CORRIGAN-CAMDEN EL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 40.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 429 students in 2018 compared to 397 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 26% to 15%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.