CREEKSIDE EL

CREEKSIDE EL is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in LIVINGSTON, Texas, one of the schools within LIVINGSTON ISD, enrolling 504 students in grades 1 through 5.

LIVINGSTON ISD runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,016 students. CREEKSIDE EL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, CREEKSIDE EL lists that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 33% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 80% of students are eligible 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, CREEKSIDE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.0%, the actual is 36.5%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Polk County shows median household income runs about $62,259, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. CREEKSIDE EL is one of 19 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 7,045 students).

The closest other public school is CEDAR GROVE EL, roughly 1.4 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CREEKSIDE EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 44.4%.

CREEKSIDE EL operates from a small-town location.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.