CURTIS EL

CURTIS EL operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in BEAUMONT, Texas, part of BEAUMONT ISD. Current enrollment sits at 509 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 26 schools in BEAUMONT ISD (16,336 students total), CURTIS EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, CURTIS EL records that the most-represented group is Black (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 26% White, 20% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, CURTIS EL lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, CURTIS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.5%; this one delivers 43.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $60,026 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Jefferson County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students), of which CURTIS EL is one.

MARSHALL MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CURTIS EL. On composite proficiency, CURTIS EL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 11%: 571 students in 2018 compared to 509 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 42% to 26%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.