CRESTVIEW EL

As a medium-sized elementary school in WACO, Texas, CRESTVIEW EL instructs 464 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by WACO ISD.

WACO ISD comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 13,476 students; CRESTVIEW EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CRESTVIEW EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 28% Black, 8% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 95% of students at CRESTVIEW EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, McLennan County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, CRESTVIEW EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.3%, the actual is 27.2%, a residual of -5.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for McLennan County put the typical household earns roughly $66,643 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CRESTVIEW EL is one of 124 public schools in McLennan County (combined enrollment of about 45,703 students).

WACO H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CRESTVIEW EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CRESTVIEW EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 28.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 24%: 608 students in 2018 compared to 464 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.